Anna Journey
Anna Journey is the author of the poetry collections Vulgar Remedies (Louisiana State University Press, 2013) and If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (University of Georgia Press, 2009), which was selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry Series. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Southern California. "Walking Upright in a Field of Devils" first appeared in Shenandoah 56/3. Walking Upright in a Field of Devils
Because billy goats rise to the height of a woman and walk upright, I saw a field of devils blue and vertical, horned in the moonlight, heat lightning in their luminous beards. Because the static of grackles crying from ball … Continue reading