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ISBN: 978-1-954245-10-5
eISBN: 978-1-954245-18-1
February 2022 \u2022 Poetry<\/p>\n

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Midflight<\/em><\/h1>\n

David Corcoran<\/h2>\n

A posthumous collection, Midflight<\/em> collects the poems written by beloved science editor and journalist David Corcoran in the latter part of his life. Idling in a space between the pastoral and the ordinary, Corcoran\u2019s lyrical world maps the sublime mundanity of nature while exploring memory, dreams, and consciousness itself. Corcoran\u2019s lines abound with figures living and long deceased, with the dead walking onstage as if they never left. Describing the accident that killed his father when he was a toddler in \u201cHere,\u201d Corcoran writes, \u201cthe door [opens] in midflight \/ and [pitches] him out.\u201d In \u201cLast Questions,\u201d he asks, \u201cAre you my brother or \/ a mockingbird?\u201d While these haunting, vivid poems have an aching prescience, imbued as they are with the awareness of human ephemerality, the gift they proffer, to the writer and the reader at once, is the sense of finding oneself midflight, in midair, betwixt sky and ground, in the free fall of being\u2014going and going and never gone.<\/p>\n

WHEN YOU DIE THEY’LL AUTOPSY YOUR BRAIN<\/p>\n

In one quadrant: whiskers, insect husks,
syringes, wet ashes. In the second:
an illuminated alphabet\u2014Apollo,
Bathysphere, Chaos, &c. The third,
your parents, shrunken & mummified,
hair & fingers eerily lifelike. And finally
a newborn, radiant as alabaster,
fragile as eggshell, who you are.<\/p>\n

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