Steve Brisendine

I am a native and (so far) lifelong Kansan -- a writer, poet, occasional artist and recovering journalist. I formerly wrote poetry and fiction under the pen name of Stephen Clay Dearborn but have been publishing under my own name since 2019. 

I enjoy both forms and formless poetry and have devised a 10-line form called "dividita," examples of which have appeared in several publications, both online and in print. 

This is an example of the form, published in 2021 in Aji magazine and included in my second collection, Salt Holds No Secret But This (Spartan Press):
 

signs behind the times

all the stones we have
raised over millennia –

ziggurats, passage
tombs, pyramids, megaliths –

in attempts to read our next
chapters by the lights

above, when all of them speak
to us from the past;

even the moon’s pale advice
arrives a second too late