Caki Wilkinson is the author of the poetry collections Circles Where the Head Should Be (2011), which won the Vassar Miller Prize, and The Wynona Stone Poems (forthcoming in 2014), which won the Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books.
A 2008 Ruth Lilly fellow and the winner of the 2013 Robert Frost Farm Prize, her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, Kenyon Review, and Yale Review, among other journals. She is an assistant professor of English at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN.
She’s playing hooky for the umpteenth lunch / this month, pure lust—blowing the Weatherman, / to put it bluntly. Days when he’s off-screen / he calls and she comes running...