Erosions September 2020 and nightmarish visions

and nightmarish visions

of crossings and re-crossings

But the story of Babylon itself remains a mystery

Sophia is forced to return to her childhood home in the former German Democratic Republic

After living in Germany for sixteen years

Erosions September 2020 and nightmarish visionsErosions is John A. Griffins first full length book of poems. Written shortly after he emigrated to the United States, the poems comprise a kind of Bildungsroman exploring themes of boyhood innocence, fantasy, landscapes, nature, death, loss, absence, exile, and a coming into ones powers as one seeks to apprehend the changes wrought by time, epiphany, and departure. Absence, lines, natural forces, spirituality, and extinction are all leitmotifs in the