Hot yellow cores
of the purple hollyhocks,
one midway up
the dry stalk,
two near the top
beside the white
Lincoln
Where
Rae Armantrout is the current judge of the Yale Younger Poets Award. Her book, Go Figure, is forthcoming in September of 2024.
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