Poets/Nathaniel Mackey

Nathaniel Mackey

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Heaved our bags and headed out again. Again …

Nathaniel Mackey

“While we’re alive,” we kept …

Nathaniel Mackey

The way we lay …

Nathaniel Mackey

Gray morning, blue morning, a …

Nathaniel Mackey

Some new Atlantis known as Lower …

Nathaniel Mackey

On Antiphon Island they lowered …

Nathaniel Mackey

A comped piano lifted the leaves in …

Nathaniel Mackey

Anuncio drifted in a well of sound, unlay’s …

Nathaniel Mackey

All hands were on deck as we docked …

Nathaniel Mackey

Eleanoir and Huff served as a marker, their con- …

Nathaniel Mackey

Carnival morning they …

Nathaniel Mackey

The vote came in early. We ignored …

Nathaniel Mackey

Came now to another crossroads. …

Nathaniel Mackey

Again that closer walk, legless though …

Nathaniel Mackey

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