Elizabeth Metzger is the author of the poetry collection The Spirit Papers, which won the Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the chapbook The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. First Place winner of Narrative’s Fifth Annual Poetry Contest, Metzger earned her MFA at Columbia University.

The Eclipse That Quenched the Ego

An iPoem

by Elizabeth Metzger

Fold yourself inward, world.


Draw me a map of your agonies,
all the missing rivers you dried,


a star-thread species
nobody could keep in the grave.
People on couch
To continue reading please sign in.
Join for free
Already a reader? Sign In