My student and I read a story about a cowboy
who discards his poisoned horses into a river.
Even clouds rot in this wet time. River rises.
We learn of a moon phasing in reverse, boneless
fish, dirty remains, fire and remorse, and something
further downstream, unmoving. Who or what it is,
why it’s there, doesn’t seem to matter.
I am struck by how few questions she has.
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H.E. Fisher (she/they) is the author of the collection Sterile Field (Free Lines Press, 2022) and chapbook Jane Almost Always Smiles (Moonstone Arts Center Press, 2022). H.E.’s poems have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Psaltery & Lyre, and Whale Road Review, among other publications. H.E. was awarded City College of New York’s 2019 Stark Poetry Prize and has received nominations for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize.
