S.D. Dillon

S.D. Dillon is a poet and small business owner from Michigan. He has an AB from Princeton and an MFA from Notre Dame, where he was Managing Editor of The Bend in 2004. His poetry has appeared recently in Tampa Review, Barstow & Grand, Red Noise Collective, Door = Jar, The Under Review, and Cathexis Northwest Press, and is forthcoming in Wild Roof Journal, Gabby & Min’s Literary Review, The Wave, and Half and One.

“Jack Pines,” “Beachcombing,” and “Yards Away”

They survived the fin de siècle logging
That claimed the rouge et blanc

Leaving tepees of slash
On the Grayling sand.

And the farmers
Wielding fire to clear land…