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Eric Pankey // "June Vagaries" (1994)

"We never spoke the same language, but there were times I swore [she] could read my mind."

—Eric Pankey, "The Tell"

Eric Pankey, ‘Ash’ from Crow-Work

~ eric pankey, from 'the cincinnati review.'

The trees are a thousand species of fires

But mostly I live here in the capricious present Writing down one thing, then the next. Autumn passes like empty freight cars—

Some doors open, some doors closed— Light flickers and flashes through the cracks. The trees are a thousand species of fires.

— Eric Pankey, from “Southern Elegy,” Trace: Poems (Milkweed Editions, 2013)

There is no cure for this low-grade melancholy. / Like a snake, you are never far from your shadow.

Eric Pankey, from “To Dwell in Thought,” in Trace: Poems (Milkweed Editions, 2013)

A path is all that remains of the passage

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from “Lucid Dreaming” by Eric Pankey

closing lines to Eclogue | Eric Pankey

How did you find solace in the world? I thought the rain, the trees, and the gate Opening into an orchard were gifts.

Eric Pankey, closing lines to “Eclogue,” Apocrypha: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf)

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