Matthew Zapruder, born in in Washington, DC, is the author of six poetry collections, including I Love Hearing Your Dreams (Scribner, 2024) and Come On All You Ghosts, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, as well as two books of prose: Why Poetry and Story of a Poem (Unnamed, 2023). Zapruder teaches in the MFA program at St. Mary’s College in Moraga and lives in San Francisco.

Photo credit: B.A. Van Sise

The New Lustration

by Matthew Zapruder

Last night I heard faint music moving
up through the floor. The thought
I could be one who falls asleep and dreams

People on couch

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