Cole Swensen
THEY
[the ghost project]
Cole Swensen
THEY
[the ghost project]
When some from a corner
I saw it in a doorway, I
thought I saw a door
Because I know her houseand thus think of it as age
Only recently have ghosts been people we never knew
Because once I lived here too
Once I lived
entirely at night
and because it was during a heat wave, the power went out. We lived an entire week in the dark
heat.
A bright
bridge in the fall. The back of the wrist
breaks its wing
in its little then
it makes a sun
which adds up to them.
Cole Swensen is the author of eleven collections of poetry and has been awarded a National Poetry Series selection, the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the editor of La Presse, a small press dedicated to French poetry in English translation, and she teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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