Michael Spence has driven public-transit buses in the Seattle area for over twenty-five years. His work has appeared recently in The Chariton Review, The New Criterion, The New York Quarterly, The Sewanee Review, and the anthology New Poets of the American West. Other poems are forthcoming in Sewanee Theological Review, Southwest Review, and the anthology Many Trails to the Summit. His third book, Crush Depth, was published last year by Truman State University Press. (updated 10/2010)