Keith S. Wilson won First Place in Narrative’s Twelfth Annual Poetry Contest. An Affrilachian poet and game designer, he is the author of Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). Wilson earned an MFA from Chicago State University, and his work has been anthologized in Best New Poets and Best of the Net.

Aubade to a Collapsed Star

by Keith S. Wilson

You bankrupt the sun, underwater
statue. Dark galaxy of faults, our bed

a garden of the littlest sighs
of our waking. Our room, abstract.
People on couch
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