Derek Annis is a poet from Spokane, Washington, who holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University. Their poems have appeared in The Account, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Crab Creek Review, Fugue, The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review: Poem of the Week, and Spillway, among others.
My wife and I are waiting for something. Maybe a train.
Our baby makes the sign meaning more
of something.
We are standing on the tracks
in sunlight.
Our baby makes the sign meaning more.
She’s bathed and clothed and fed.
Our baby makes the sign.(More …)