an
orientation toward evening
okay
the sun is going down first
golden
purples of snow the late
stage
for being this end of storm
says
one way to be is you two
and
a baby and an apartment
and
in the afternoon you go out
all
together I mean
it’s
possible to move through time
and
space together and money’s
adjacency
to this
incidental
but not transcendent
so
a child does not know
at
some point what it is
so
the body’s organic
life
as well walking without
money
the sky does glow
blue
and deep and bright
where
clouds part after sunset
going
back inside money
does
buy this place
of
rest and warmth
Katie Naughton is the author of the chapbook Study (above/ground press, 2021). Her
poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Michigan
Quarterly Review, Jubilat, Tagvverk, and elsewhere. She is at work on two
collections of poems, “Debt Ritual” and “the real ethereal,” which was a
finalist for the 2021 Nightboat Poetry Prize and Autumn House Press Book Prize.
She is the publicity editor for Essay Press, editor and project manager at the
HOW(ever) and How2 Digital Archive Project (launching in 2022), and founder of
Etcetera, a web journal of reading recommendations from poets
(www.etceterapoetry.com). She lives in Buffalo, NY, where she is a doctoral
candidate in the Poetics program at SUNY – Buffalo.
the
Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan
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