The American Poetry Review

THREE POEMS

Spent

months and months, once
on a sofa I’d seen under a tree, driving home
from Vermont, it wasn’t

the sofa made me think of heartache
the disposing of something important, it was

the suddenness of any thought

and then once you’ve had it. I could probably recapitulate
all of the art from the trip, but

shouldn’t. , I will say—and, god,the intricacy of the shot, down

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