Drunk
Amplitudes of sunlight, the incongruous
Night. See me looking in that window,
Bereft, drunk, wasting all my time. Here,
My garden is thinning, the blue shadows

Of the sky on the deck in twilight. What
Longs for spirit is only a body. I would
Say anything to have one, again, again.
There's nothing that's mine here, and I

Travel so light. The moon huge, the new
Blooms opening by faith. Drunk, I slept
On the stairs, and the mercury lamps flared between
Worlds. What pushes toward the future,

What grows without us, this is what I want,
And a few birds on a dock, the unfathomable water.
from the book ASCENT OF THE MOTHERS / Wave Books
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This poem is about one night I drank wine after being sober for 12 years.

Noelle Kocot on "Drunk"
New Biennial Prize for Translated Poetry

"Publishers Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo Publishing and New Directions have launched the biennial Poetry in Translation prize, which will award an advance of $5,000 (£3,700) to be shared equally between poet and translator. The winning collection will be published in the UK and Ireland by Fitzcarraldo Editions, in Australia and New Zealand by Giramondo and in North America by New Directions."

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