Jason Gordy Walker

Nocturne

An oak stands tall
in a barren field.

I see two or three
bright eyes above my shadow.

If only you were here,
Marguerite . . .

Jason Gordy Walker is a poet, prose writer, and translator whose work appears or is forthcoming in Atlanta Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, One Art, Nimrod International Journal, Poetry Northwest, Poetry South, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. X: Alabama, and others. A recipient of scholarships from the New York State Summer Writers Institute and Poetry by the Sea, he holds an MFA from the University of Florida.