William Fargason, is the author of Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara (University of Iowa Press, 2020), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Florida Book Award. He earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and a PhD in poetry from Florida State University and lives in Sparks Glencoe, Maryland.


Photograph by Ramsey Matthews.

Song

by William Fargason

I have seen the kingdom in the backyard
behind a group of four oaks, wooden planks
joining each to each. A shelter. I have
seen the kingdom, and it is a hermit thrush
with a piece of popcorn too big for its beak.

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