Summary: Poet Peter Munro recounts the complex mix of blessing and burden in caring for a dying parent in his multi-part poem, " Ketogenesis Apocalypse." In this section, "Reading My Father's Bible," Munro finds a metaphor for his preacher father's decline in the image of his Bible worn to the point of falling apart. Munro spends much of his time in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska, working as a fisheries scientist. His poems have been featured in Poetry magazine and the Beloit Poetry
