Stitches of rain unpierce
my lips. There is no pain.
What the breath slips loose
I regain.
Peter Munro is a former fisheries scientist who worked for forty-five years in the Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Sitka, and Seattle. Munro has recently earned a poetry MFA at the University of Washington, Seattle. Munro’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in such journals as Poetry, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Iowa Review, Barrow Street, Birmingham Poetry Review, Rattle, Fugue, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Coachella Review, and Poetry Northwest.
