Patrick Phillips, a finalist in Narrative’s Fifth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of three poetry collections, Chattahoochee; Boy; and Elegy with a Broken Machine (Knopf, 2015), as well as a volume of translations, When We Leave Each Other: Selected Poems of Henrik Nordbrandt (2013). He received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a Pushcart Prize. A graduate of Tufts University, Phillips received an MFA from the University of Maryland and a PhD from New York University. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Drew University.

My Grandmother

An iPoem

by Patrick Phillips
My grandmother squints at the attendant
with his white foam tray


and waves him off like a starlet
as she tells me Someday
People on couch
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