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.
Fragment
If, in a given moment, I am not being touched —
in that moment, I would swear to you it has been decades
since I was touched, indeed I have never been touched.
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Amorak Huey is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-founder with Han VanderHart of River River Books, Huey teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He also is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2018) and the chapbook Slash/Slash (Diode, 2021).
