Gossamer
just when we believe our bodies
have adjusted to absence
comes a new season of smoke and wildness
take me now
in this unexpected heat
take me until I cannot help
but bleat your name in hunger
a horizon of geese
naming the sky
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Amorak Huey is author of Mouth, out in 2026 from Cornerstone Press, and four previous collections of poetry. Co-founder with Han VanderHart of River River Books, Huey teaches in the creative writing program at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
Gorgeous poem.