Caroline Knox is the author of numerous poetry collections, including He Paves the Road with Iron Bars, winner of the Maurice English Poetry Award; Quaker Guns, winner of a 2009 Recommended Reading Award; and To Drink Boiled Snow (2015). She earned a PhD in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Born in Boston, Knox lives in Westport, Massachusetts.

Photograph by David Greenfield.

Cataract

by Caroline Knox

Tear-streaked mascara, mascara-stained cheeks: a cataract
of woe, of woes, pouring gravity. Oh, frozen heart making
new meltwater. The intromitting cascades are downspouts
to bedrock erosion by rain within the meaning of the act;

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