all the animals in my poems are black
the year his daughter turns 70
the tesseract thrice Theseus
identifies itself with itself.
Trace Howard DePass is the author of self-portrait as the space between us (PANK 2018) & BOOTless → (Diode Editions 2024). His work has been featured with Poetry Foundation, Ours Poetica, NPR’s The Takeaway, SAND, Entropy, Split This Rock, Poetry Project, Bettering American Poetry, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series. DePass is a fellow with Poets House, Obsidian, and Teachers & Writers.