"The Uncapping" by Tim Mayo

Tim Mayo was a Vermont Artist Week Fellow in May of 2006, 2008, and 2018. His second volume of poetry, Thesaurus of Separation, (Phoenicia Publishing 2016) was a finalist for the 2017 Montaigne Medal and a finalist for the 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award. His poem “The Uncapping” was first published in Verse Wisconsin 102. This revised version may be read at https://winningwriters.com/resources/the-uncapping and is included in Thesaurus of Separation. His most recent collection is Notes to the Mental Hospital Timekeeper (Kelsay Books, 2109). More of his poems may be read at his website: https://www.tim-mayo.net