There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick

Michael Teig's poems are moving, intelligent, full of delight, and—most refreshingly—a pleasure to read. Stephen Dobyns says of Teig's poems, "they have this ability to make the world fresh again and make us realize why we love the world, despite its failings and our own."

*When they gave him a shovel

he repaired the ground.*

*When they addressed him in memos

he said I am lonely too.*

*He gave them a shrug

and held*

*a gray cat to his chest

like an alibi.*

**Michael Teig** is founding co-editor of *jubilat*. He won the inaugural A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.