• Penelope and the Watching Fire

    Shane McCrae

    Fall 2023

    She burned the loom each

    Night, for heat. But each

    Morning it returned


    Whole, and draped with a

    Restless blue fabric

    A wave’s skeleton

    Shane McCrae is the author of the poetry collections The Many Hundreds of the Scent and Cain Named the Animal: Poems as well as a memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

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