Sherwin Bitsui is the author of three poetry collections: Shapeshift; Flood Song, winner of the American Book Award; and Dissolve, and his work has been anthologized in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. A recipient of the 2006 Whiting Writers’ Award, Bitsui was born on the Navajo Reservation in White Cone, Arizona, and is Diné of the Todicheenii people. He lives in Tucson.

From Flood Song

by Sherwin Bitsui

Alarm clocks, eagle plumes,
a moth’s unblinking eye
hover from left to right,
in the shrinking room
where the children huddle

        nibbling orange crusts

        from diesel-soaked butterfly wings.

People on couch
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