Melissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press, 2018) and Rough Honey, awarded the 2010 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She received an MA in creative writing from the University of California at Davis and is a freelance editor and writer in San Francisco.

Harder and Other Poems

by Melissa Stein


Harder

If you’re going to storm,
I said, do it harder.
Pummel nests from limbs
and drown the furred things
in their dens. Swell creek
to flood, unhome the fish.
Everything’s got too cozy.

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