St. James Wood was raised in California and Hawaii. He is now an inmate.

Other poems from Meridian in Verse Daily:
February 10, 2005:  "Ecclesiastes" by Susan L. Miller
November 3, 2004:  "'Thank You'" by Mia Leonin
June 3, 2004:  "The Given" by Lawrence Revard
June 1, 2004:  "Oyster Shard" by Sarah M. Brownsberger
May 31, 2004:  "Behind the Fear of Flying" by Jason Nemec
February 2, 2004:  "An Admonition" by Seamus Heaney
November 11, 2003:  "Impossible Garden" by John Isles
July 24, 2003:  "from The Decalogue (III)" by Susan Wood
July 22, 2003:  "The Runes, the Brute Remedies" by Elton Glaser
January 30, 2003:  "Ode on Satan's Power" by Barbara Hamby
September 8, 2002:  "Plato and the Fall" by David Young
September 4, 2002:  "Blue Colonial" by David Roderick
August 26, 2002:  "Improvident Knowledge" by R. T. Smith

About Meridian:
Poets in this issue: St. James Wood, David Young, Richard Wollman, David Moolten, Chad Reynolds, Marika Ismail, Georges Godeau, Rebecca Givens, Brian Brodeur, John Kinsella, Dan Kaplan, Julie Hanson, Jeffrey Pethybridge, Alison Powell, Bobby C. Rogers