Heather Christle, born in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, is the author of four poetry collections: Heliopause, What Is Amazing, The Difficult Farm, and The Trees The Trees, which won the 2012 Believer Poetry Award. She has taught poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and Emory University, among many other places, and lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Photograph by Dennie Eagleson.

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by Heather Christle

Many people
remarked upon
the similarities
between the flag
of the Kingdom
of the Half of It
and the flag
of the Kingdom
of the Most of It
and then fell
quiet, like the lull
between the wars.

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