American Molten by James D'Agostino

Poetry editor Nicolette Ashley Visciano on today’s poem: What are you left with when tender ballad and commanding poeticism are melded? Within this coalescence, James D'Agostino presents the reader with "American Molten" and a new way of understanding the power of a palindrome. Enacting a call to "keep your ears on the horizon, / let the nearby slosh you to sleep," D'Agostino masterfully swells…