Assembled Climate

Ryan Skrabalak

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POETRY
A long poem celebrating and exploring the encounter born from an elision of Robert Bly’s collection, The Morning Glory.

DETAILS
January 2026
Edition of 150
36 pp. 10 x 8 in.
Hand-bound chapbook with letterpress printed covers. Stab binding. Laid-style papers with blue-raspberry end sheets.

Praise

One’s sense of security has no place in poetry, where possibilities of what could’ve been public have been wasted to extinction, and with them almost every chance for serendipity. It is not sweetness. Skrabalak’s elision is grace. It appears and is enviable. It is the nature of specificity. “Stone/ Tennessee, the sun a lonesome lean man / sideways, exiled,” shaved to a post-nut clarity, mid-nut responsibility, pre-nut butter. “He comes in my hand / a yellowish triumph”.

—Zan de Parry

from Assembled Climate

to be touched. Go
home the other way

      I have climbed
down tide pools
   kneeling alone, clear
water

         I notice a delicate
           purple, the webs
             between sunset
               relaxed curled up
                 delicate rods
                   on top, waving about
                     up his groin
                       then back down,
                   lazily curved
               up looking behind
            him, a glacier, pink
         rock, marvelously

    floating. I reach out
      hold on, slowly
        relax the underside
        gradually rising from
        inside the mouth,
          all looking, feeling,
              blindly, only
                a purple rim

            Probably
            I had forgotten how
            violets slide down
              the groin, as if
        Nothing happens

Ryan Skrabalak most recently wrote National Lube (speCt!, 2024) and the chapbook The Orchids (above/ground press, 2025). A second book, Goes on now except), is forthcoming from Beautiful Days Press in 2026. He lives in “Kingston, NY,” where he hosts a reading and performance series, DOGPARK, and edits, operates, and prints books as a small press and occasional tape label, Spiral Editions.