William Fargason, is the author of Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara (University of Iowa Press, 2020), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Florida Book Award. He earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and a PhD in poetry from Florida State University and lives in Sparks Glencoe, Maryland.

Photograph by Ramsey Matthews.

My Father’s Ampersand

by William Fargason

looks like a dollar sign as if he drew
a tree trunk struck by lightning

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