Illustration for the poem “Submarine” by Christopher Woods published in the A/W 2018 issue of Popshot Magazine.

“I think of things leaving, how the sub will soon leave the dock for duty, plunge into the wet deepness of dark nothing we will never see. But I know there are all kinds of nothing. I grab the top rungs, begin my own descent into the sub, the sea, and, soon, life without my father going first.”