GAIL PECK

FALL/WINTER 2022 ISSUE #05 POET

Gail Peck holds an M.F.A. from The Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and is the author of nine books of poetry. Her poems have been published in Nimrod, Southern Review, Greensboro Review, Comstock, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart.

FROM THE WEEDS OF HIROSHIMA

After photograms by João Penalva, 1997

that grew
through asphalt
at a factory

and were placed
on photographic paper
exposed to light

creating a negative image
no eye of the camera
no shutter

They are now
ghosts yet they are lovely
the sawtooth leaves