Richard Kenney is a poet whose technical skill, emotional depth, and intellectual resonance are showcased in his five books of poems: The One-Strand River: Poems 1994–2007; The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize; Orrey; The Invention of the Zero, and Terminator (Knopf, 2019). A recipient of the Lannan Literary Prize, Kenney serves as the Grace M. Pollock Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Washington.

How?

by Richard Kenney

As hours back up in the clogged drain
Of the glassy water clock

As the assignation of the wind and spun vane
I’ll love you as the foghorn vague in rain


Magnetic swipe to the blinking lock
Is me to you
People on couch
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