Jacques J. Rancourt is the author of the poetry collections Brocken Spectre (Alice James Books, 2021) and Novena. He received his MFA in poetry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was a finalist in Narrative’s Fourth Annual Poetry Contest. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Rancourt lives in San Fransisco.

The Distance

by Jacques J. Rancourt

Blankets on the roof, the early sun
surrounding the hills. I want
to be happy. When I think of your hair

in my mouth, the wedge that gives us,
that morning in April and the flock
of birds below—blackbirds maybe
People on couch
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