Sun goes down and moon grows fat.
Handshakes. Laughter. Kompromat.
Ursa Major. Minor Fool.
Planes fly over Istanbul.
Post-Obama. Post-Mandela.
Topsy. Turvy. Tarantella.
Missiles fired. Hit the deck.
Jared Kushner writes a check.
Cody Walker’s most recent poetry collection is The Trumpiad (Waywiser, 2017). All proceeds from the book are being donated to the ACLU. He’s also the author of two earlier collections: The Self-Styled No-Child (Waywiser, 2016) and Shuffle and Breakdown (Waywiser, 2008). His work appears in The New York Times Magazine, Scoundrel Time, The Best American Poetry, and Resistance, Rebellion, Life: Fifty Poems Now. He lives in Ann Arbor, where he teaches English at the University of Michigan and blogs for the Kenyon Review.