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

Lazy Comet, Hurry

by Matthew Zapruder

At the party to celebrate the party everyone
so slowed down and pretending to look
like they never once knew how just to like
tonight with more than a feeling she
comes how deep is your landslide or each
other as easy as you and I wireless live
from inside the lotus reporting this party
is not fine without us even this party
would have us believing a hotel is mostly
a place to rest a talent for situations

People on couch
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