The White Dog Year / Caitlin Scarano

  dancing girl press, 2015$7.00       CAITLIN SCARANO is a poet in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD creative writing program. Her recent work can be found in Crazyhorse, Colorado Review, and Chattahoochee Review, and her first chapbooks are forthcoming from dancing girl press and Zoo Cake Press in Spring 2015.       The Song My Father And I Will Dance To   at my early winter wedding. I used to believe in a confederacy of ghosts. A man in a white suit watching me from the bedroom window of the empty house next-door. If he had eye sockets, I don’t remember what was in them. When summer came to Virginia, we’d husk corn on the front porch steps and I’d save every white worm I found between the strings & folds in a jar. I used to believe the Norfolk Southern coal train would grow a mouth and swallow the house, crunching on her mercury mirrors, little girl flesh, the bones of her anger. What did I want with those worms? You watched me watch them thresh and suffocate, tra