Erosions September 2020 After living in Germany for

After living in Germany for sixteen years

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

of crossings and re-crossings

half wanting to look down

and nightmarish visions

Erosions September 2020 After living in Germany forErosions 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