Born in an Illinois barn,
that two-headed calf
became a coin Frank flipped
through World War Two,
judging heaven from
a foxhole. “God loves evil…
goodness too,” he testifies
while pouring beer, half
of him still watching
one head blink a minute
longer than its brother,
teaching me his zebra
God of Eden / Auschwitz,
how He sacrifices to Himself.
Michael Kriesel is the winner of North American Review’s 2015 James Hearst Poetry Prize and past president of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. He served on the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission 2006-2008 and was the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Conference Coordinator 2006-2012.
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