In a college dorm, in a prison, in a marriage
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John Poch’s most recent poetry collection is God’s Poems: The Beauty of Poetry and the Christian Imagination. He lives in Lubbock, Texas, and teaches at Texas Tech University.
Once, Mrs. Bernadette described the effect to me: “Have you ever seen a crow in flight, and you saw its feet pulled up under it as it rowed itself to wherever it was going? When I get the laughing gas, I feel like those helpless feet being carried along underneath that beautiful bird. It’s nice to let something else take over for a while. The world is too much with us.”