Eleanor Stanford is the author of three poetry collections, The Imaginal Marriage, Bartram’s Garden, and The Book of Sleep. She holds an undergraduate degree from New College of Florida and graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin and University of Virginia. She lives in the Philadelphia area.

Hispaniola

by Eleanor Stanford

A monocausal theory can’t be right,
you said. The terrace looked out to the sea.
The blue undimmed, cloud scarred, finite.

You gave me a shard of your past each night.
The stars in Peshawar. A sharp-fisted lychee.
A monocausal theory can’t be right.


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