Nick Flynn is the author of Some Ether (Graywolf Press, 2000). The poems in this issue are from his latest book, Blind Huber, due out from Graywolf this year. He is a recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress and recently received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Poetry
Mar/Apr 2015
When I Was a Girl
When I was a girl, climbing outside my body, every eye I felt, my legs no longermine. A circle of boys, a circle of girls. . . . Let’s play […]
Poetry
Spring 2002
Twinned
To exist wholly in another, seamless, mirrored. Think of the hive, at each turn we find ourselves, not a version, not a replica, but our whole selves. Love, you claim, […]
Poetry
Spring 2002
Workers (foragers)
After this seven- month slumber, honey-stupored & warm, we unfold our wings, shake off the hive, set out for buckwheat & the low flowers of spring. We work ourselves ragged, […]
Poetry
Spring 2002
Queen
Net suits & smoking cups, you reek fear. If we fight back, or if there isn't enough, you seek me out with gloved fingers to crush my head. When we […]