Carlie Hoffman, the author of This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), received a 92Y/Discovery Prize and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers. She earned her MFA from Columbia University and lives in New York, where she teaches writing at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Mockingbird

by Carlie Hoffman

May has hit New York again with the rain
between pauses. Kyanite-blue deli flowers
sweat in plastic buckets on the Broadway
corner where the woman you left me for
last spring drifts ahead of me
up the subway stairs. Anything can happen
because everything happens in New York.

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