This poem was written by Katy Gero in a 12-Month Poetry Collection Generator taught by Angel Nafis
at night, when i’m outside and / the wind shakes the chimes,
it sounds like the bell
Everything is an elegy these days, all chipped rings, / clipped wings.
There were two worlds then, the one we lived in and the one she invented, where my aunt remarried and nobody ever went to America
the smoke of belt burn / and nectarines and me / — I will learn to love him
there is little room for sourness, / little room for anything other than a vibrating joy