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  • A Small Poem for Meggin Written on a Rainy and Cool September Afternoon the Day Before Going to Vermont
  • Benjamin D. Egnatz (bio)

When the sheet slips in sleep off your body, and the moon, as it must be night, hovers somewhere miles beyond the tarred roof above us and spreads its light across the milk-dark sky, to find, lovely, your exposed skin, I then whisper along your long torso the length of my body the way day, as it must rise, opens the square-eyed buildings that huddle around us, the charming old buildings in which, we imagine, stars live. “I see Polaris,” you tell me, eyes closed. “His face is in that small window across the courtyard.”

Benjamin D. Egnatz

Benjamin D. Egnatz is currently a doctoral candidate in English at New York University, where he teaches freshman writing. He is also employed at the investment firm Hyperion Capital Management, Inc.

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