“Climbing through night, I saw
the swan
wearing his black Venetian mask
and digging through snow
white plumage—as if, right there,
under the wing, a little door
might teeter open and scatter his chest
of starlight
out onto the pond.”
Enjoy this audio recording of “Ars Poetica” by RK Fauth from Vol. 35:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy your copy here!
RK Fauth is the author of A Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees, winner of the Walt McDonald First Book Prize in Poetry. Her writing has been published in POETRY Magazine, Poem-a-Day, AGNI, and elsewhere. Fauth’s work has been supported by the Academy of American Poets, The Fulbright Program, and others. She lives in New York City, NY.
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