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Gather Ye
Second Place — 2024 First Things Poetry Prize
Fray Luis De León: Dizain
Here is the place envy and lies Pent me behind a prison gate. Oh, happy is the humble state Of that wise man so sage he flies This wicked...
Christmas Party
One more dead party, and, off to the sideAmong the knick-knacks and the curios,In a blue blazer you assume the poseOf one whose patterned noose is loosely tied,Of one...
The View on Waking
Melius enim iudicavit de malis benefacere, quam mala nulla esse permittere. —St. Augustine There is a kind of crypt, between This window and the window-screen, In which fine silken...