Kerrin McCadden is the author of the poetry collections American Wake and Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes, winner of the Vermont Book Award, and the chapbook Keep This to Yourself, winner of the Button Poetry Prize. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and lives in Vermont.

Paean for Dinner Dates with Sarah

by Kerrin McCadden

  at the Blackback Pub


Name me Rhododendron next time
I come around, I say. Give me


a new pair of shoes with spikes.
I’m a paperweight taking my cares


for a walk, a long walk off a short
porch. Grab a beer. You have


other worlds to say. Here’s the thing,
People on couch
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