Terry Trowbridge

choke the Almighty unto a new waking*

I will commit suicide
by swallowing nails.

I am angry at God
and I choose a death

that will make a carpenter cry.

* The title is two lines from a poem by Marc di Saverio, 2017.

Canadian farmer Terry Trowbridge's poems have appeared in CV2, The New Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review, The Nashwaak Review, The Great Lakes Review, Pamenar Press, The Ex-Puritan, Granfalloon, Studies in Social Justice, and ~200 more places. He is grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for funding during the polycrisis.