Amorak Huey
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Say Moon One More Time

Say moon one more time. Say
mouth and sky and swoon.
I would ask you to sing me to sleep
but then I might sleep
away the few hours we have --
it’s unfair, it’s always been so,
seconds slipping from our fingers
like silk from a shoulder
leaving us alone in this skin
touching like strangers
in a moonlit field of snow,
a bliss so pure it could be
mistaken for sadness.

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To the Elderly Couple Making Out in a Red Toyota Prius in the Parking Lot of Home Depot

Goddamn right the errands can wait.

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Amorak Huey is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress, 2021). Co-founder with Han VanderHart of River River Books, Huey teaches at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He also is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2018).



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