Our presence here silences the sounds we came to hear. Chases the animals we set out to join in our shared hunger. What we thought the moon is not the moon. Our first night together; already the end of us written in spaces we don’t know how to fill: emptiness where birdsong should be.
Amorak Huey
Amorak Huey is author of five books of poems including Mouth, out from Cornerstone Press in 2026. Co-founder with Han VanderHart of River River Books, Huey teaches at Bowling Green State University. He is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2024).