Lucien Darjeun Meadows was raised in West Virginia and earned his MFA in creative writing from Southern Illinois University. A winner of the AWP Intro Journals Project, he has also received recognition from the Academy of American Poets. Meadows lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Cleave

An iPoem

by Lucien Darjeun Meadows

The summer everything changed, I walked out
Past the field, into the forest, toward the cleft
In the hill, on the darker side of the river.
Our entire house could fit into this gap, this hole
No father or grandfather could explain.

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