Guardian
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The span of his wings? Not sorrow. Angle of his descent? Night. How could I say he wasn’t that word always dreamed for? Unproblematized. Unhaunted. Free. [End Page 527]
Rickey Laurentiis
Rickey Laurentiis is the recipient of fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy, the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several journals, including Boston Review, Fence, jubilat, Oxford American, and Poetry. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St Louis, where he was a Chancellor’s fellow.
