Carol Moldaw is the author of the novel The Widening, as well as seven poetry collections, including Go Figure (Four Way Books 2024), Beauty Refracted, and So Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems. A recipient of a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writer’s Residency and a Pushcart Prize, Moldaw lives with her husband and daughter in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and teaches privately.

The Nature of Desire

An iPoem

by Carol Moldaw

To fulminate, to go on a tear,
because what’s wanted
is forbidden—not that I have,

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