If you put in to the river near where you live, how close will it bring you to home? Nothing is familiar from here. There is always an emptiness coming towards us to take something back or away. Blue heron on bank, green heron in branch, bittern on bar, mussel husk. THANKS FOR A GREAT FORTY FIVE YEARS was written in the gritty window of the shop. Even the nests in the eaves are empty. TO EACH THEIR OWN ETERNITY is written on the stone city gate. It's safe to say now, from this distance, wobbling in the blue basket of a yellow balloon, that everything ends, and everything ends in water, or, what doesn't end in water ends in light, or what doesn't end in light doesn't
Carolyn Guinzio's most recent collection is A Vertigo Book, winner of The Tenth Gate Prize and winner of the Foreword Indies Award for Poetry Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, and many other journals. Her poetry films have been screened at numerous festivals throughout the world, including the Cadence Festival, where she was a jury award winner. Her website is carolynguinzio.tumblr.com.
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