• Someday, If I Am Lucky

    Matthew Nienow

    Summer 2024

    I will be survived by this open acre
    ringed by cedars and firs, this
    meadow collecting yellow light,
    where today, alive, I linger
    in the listening, housed in a shape
    capable of such ordinary song. I wish
    to thank the minerals in my bones
    and all this borrowed epiphany, all this

    Matthew Nienow is the author of House of Water and If Nothing, both from Alice James Books. His work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Missouri Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington with his wife and two sons, where he works as a mental health counselor.

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