There was a small hollow
in the far corner of the yard.
In this year, when rain
imagines itself Biblical
and the sky has split open
like a gourd of tears,
it is overfilled with rain.
Two ducks have arrived
and declared it a pond.
-Louis Faber
Louis Faber’s (he/him) work has appeared in Cantos, The Poet (U.K.), Alchemy Spoon, , Dreich (Scotland), Tomorrow and Tomorrow,), Defenestration, Atlanta Review, Glimpse, Rattle, Pearl, The South Carolina Review and Worcester Review, among others, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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