Philip Metres is a poet, translator, and scholar and the author of numerous books, including the collections Sand Opera and Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) and the nonfiction work The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance. He was awarded the Arab American Book Award and teaches literature as well as creative writing at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

I Will Meet You at the End

by Philip Metres

Past the weekend gaper delays
and drivers reckless to arrive,
past where the road suddenly

clears of cars, inside a grove
of eastern pine, where the gravel
grinds to sand before the blue


opens at the point, the day
already dark, I will look for you.
People on couch
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