Where

Hot yellow cores

of the purple hollyhocks,

one midway up

the dry stalk,

two near the top

beside the white

Lincoln

Rae Armantrout is the current judge of the Yale Younger Poets Award. Her book, Go Figure, is forthcoming in September of 2024.
Originally published:
March 4, 2024

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