Michael Metivier’s recent work appears, or is forthcoming, in Crazyhorse, jubilat, Midwest Quarterly, and African American Review.
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Advection Blues
The mower alone
saw from the median
the cloud come over
the mountain down to trawl
the valley like a whale
and the swifts like water
passing through her white baleen.
The mower alone patrolling
the haw with the hawks
saw from the median
the cloud come over
the mountain to...