Doug Ramspeck is the author of six poeny collections and one collection of short stories. His most recent book, Black Flowers, is forthcoming by LSU Press. Individual poems and stories have been published by journals that include The Kenyon Review, Slate, The Georgia Review, and The Southern Review.

Other poems by Doug Ramspeck in Verse Daily:
October 19 2015:   "Field Religion" "The old men fishing at the river..."
January 12, 2015:   "The Human Velocity" "When, last August, our neighbor 's house burned down..."
August 9, 2012:   "Starving Horse" "It is morning and no worse for it...."
March 4, 2011:   "Feral Evening" "Not the bats diving..."
September 30, 2010:   "Gorgeous Light" "We lived by a bay..."
July 23, 2009:   "Bottomlands Tongue" "And so the burning of this sun beside the pickerelweeds..."
July 16, 2009:   "Mermaid in my Fish Bowl" "I would say she was no larger..."
January 17, 2009:   "Possum Nocturne" "The boy found a possum skull..."
May 17, 2008:   "Late Husband" "In her dreams, then, she imagined him as feverish...."

Books by Doug Ramspeck:

Other poems on the web by Doug Ramspeck:
"The Marriage We Carried in Our Pockets"
Two poems
"Nomads"
Three poems
"Gravity"
Three poems
"The Long Dead"
Two poems
Two poems
"Gravity"
"Diaspora"
"Alluvial Prophecy"
Two poems
"Life in the Woods"
"One True Poem"
"After"
"Voodoo Sonnets"
"Deposition"
"Memoir"
Two poems
Six poems
"Tupelos"
"Love Theory"
Three poems
Four poems
"Smoke and Ash"
"Waterborne"
Two poems
"Ritual Cloud Line"

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