T. Zachary Cotler is the author of the poetry collection House with a Dark Sky Roof (2011). In 2006 he was awarded the Amy Clampitt Residency Award by the late poet’s estate.

From Sonnets to the Humans

by T. Zachary Cotler

If there is only you,
how could I tell, but, from a canceled mecca,
no one one loved you as I asked
to return to you. Doves
in the cities, they
did not mean peace.

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