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May/June 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 3 • Poetry |

How Many Times My Eyes Have Opened

By Paul Nemser

Each new earth, once unlidded, works a change.

I blink, I blink, no idea
what scrub this is, the evergreens
not quite green, or any color.

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Paul Nemser’s third book of poetry, A Thousand Curves, won the Editor’s Choice Award from Red Mountain Press and is forthcoming in April 2021. His book Taurus (2013) won the New American Poetry Prize. A chapbook, Tales of the Tetragrammaton, appeared from Mayapple Press in 2014. His poems appear widely in magazines. He lives with his wife Rebecca in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Harborside, Maine.

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