THE LINE STARTS HERE

By Eric Pankey / Issue 10

The path, strewn with mulberries, ends at the sky, a gray-tinted cornflower blue. Night seeps in at the edges like water filling a scuttled boat. There is nothing I want to set straight. The moon, a spirit level’s bubble, shimmies a little off-center.

ERIC PANKEY is the author of many collections of poems, most recently Augury (Milkweed Editions, 2017). He is the Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University.