Milkweed Editions

We’ll say unbelievable things
to each other in the early morning—

She sends me an article from a recent National Geographic that says,

Sharks bite fewer people each year than
New Yorkers do, according to Health Department records.

Then she sends me on my way. Into the City of Sharks

this spaciousness are you absent.

trained as a pharmacist in Vienna and began to publish his poetry.

Too dangerous to keep you
in the world.

The most brilliant part of you exists to haunt me:

Sometimes I can’t believe my heart,

metimes I can’t believe my heart,
how it continues.
How it isn’t black and withered,
how the chambers remain clear,
the beat plain and perfect.

something about refracted light,

Historically, the last petal becomes your fortune.