In or leave, so that the echoes
Of an old home will just shut up
For once. Four white fathers cry
In the Black Hills—for Americans
In the shadow of stolen homes,
For Six Sioux Grandfathers, for
Blood on the granite, for a hole
In the sky of which I am the father.
Bobby Bolt is a senior English student attending the University of Illinois
at Springfield. He will graduate in May 2016 and intends to pursue an MFA
in Poetry for the Fall semester. Bobby is Poetry Editor for the Alchemist
Review, and the co-founder/poetry editor of Compass Literary Journal. His
work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alchemist Review, Postcard Poetry
& Prose Magazine, and An Anthology of Love Poems. Bobby recently read
at the Poetry Foundation as a participant in the 2015 Open Door Reading
Series for October.