In this stirring poem from Christopher Martin, the “wish to sing” is both literal and metaphoric.
Christopher Martin
About Christopher Martin
Christopher Martin is author of the poetry chapbooks Everything Turns Away (forthcoming with La Vita Poetica Press in early 2014) and A Conference of Birds (New Native Press, 2012). His work has appeared Southern Poetry, AnthologyVolume V: Georgia, Shambhala Sun, Waccamaw, Ruminate Magazine, Thrush Poetry Journal, Still: The Journal, Buddhist Poetry Review, Town Creek Poetry, and elsewhere. The editor of Flycatcher and a contributing editor at New Southerner, Chris lives with his wife and their two young children in northwest Georgia, where he works as a stay-at-home dad.