Today’s poem is “Elegy for the Stepfather” by Bruce Willard. Bruce’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares , The Harvard Review and other journals. He has published 2 collections of poems, Holding Ground (2013) and Violent Blues (2016) both published by Four Way Books. His 3rd collection, In Light of Stars , is due out from Four Way Books in 2021. He lives in Maine, Colorado and California.