Baby, baby, baby, light my way. In Anno Domini 1991, that lyric
was universally liked. Liked like butter is liked. And what’s the deal
with spider eyes anyway? And why is it considered weird to go to the zoo
by yourself? None of these things seem contradictory. Or an appropriation.
Or approximate. Or anti-anything. Sweet multiplicity. Sweet butter and honey.
Todd Copeland’s poems have appeared in The Journal, Southern Poetry Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, California Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review, Christianity & Literature, and Sugar House Review, and his essays have been published in Literary Imagination, JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory, and Media, War & Conflict, among other publications. A native of Ohio, he lives in Waco, Texas.
