Erosions September 2020 half wanting to look down

half wanting to look down

and nightmarish visions

and we hear stories from the homeless

shortly after

After living in Germany for sixteen years

Erosions September 2020 half wanting to look downErosions is John A. Griffins first full length book of poems. Written shortly after he emigrated to the United States, the poems comprise a kind of Bildungsroman exploring themes of boyhood innocence, fantasy, landscapes, nature, death, loss, absence, exile, and a coming into ones powers as one seeks to apprehend the changes wrought by time, epiphany, and departure. Absence, lines, natural forces, spirituality, and extinction are all leitmotifs in the