Stephen Gibson is author of a poetry collection, Rorschach Art (Red Hen, 2001) and a story collection, The Persistence of Memory, a finalist for The Flannery O’Connor Award and the Spokane Prize. The poem included here is from a new collection, Masaccio’s Expulsion. New poems can also be found in Bryant Literary Review, Epoch, The Louisville Review, Margie, New Delta Review, and Ploughshares, and new fiction in Michigan Quarterly Review. (updated 10/2005)