Jay Nebel is a contributor to Best New Poets 2006. He earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon and lives in Portland with his wife and son.

Montage with Pittsburgh, Jack Gilbert, and My Korean-Born Son

by Jay Nebel

So much is born out of ugliness.
My Korean-born son, who wore a pink-and-blue
hanbok on his first birthday in Flagstaff,
whose birth mother couldn’t take care of him,
my wife and I forcing ourselves to make love
while waiting for him to get here,
the bull elk I stumbled upon in a meadow,
half its antler broken off, grazing,
my blind Chihuahua that pulls on the leash
and snaps at bigger dogs.

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