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  • I Know a Place Far from Here
  • Ben Purkert (bio)

there's an oceantaking the razor shells

and dropping them from

the sky no it isthe birds! the birds!

broken piecesof them everywhere [End Page 5]

Ben Purkert

Ben Purkert is the author of For the Love of Endings (Four Way Books, 2018). His poems, essays, and book reviews appear in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, Tin House Online, AGNI, and elsewhere. A contributing editor at Guernica, he teaches creative writing at Rutgers–New Brunswick.

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