Keith David Parsons is “a native of West Virginia, USA, living in Washington, DC, and less conflicted about it than you might think.” He believes a poem without a message is “like a big hole without spikes at the bottom—why would you dig it?” Parsons is a member of the DC Poetry Collective (www.dcpoetrycollective.com), which recently published its first anthology of poems, iNK BLOTS, Vol. 1. On Twitter @Kristophanes and Instagram @keithdavidparsons.