James Galvin is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Everything We Always Knew Was True and As Is, as well as the acclaimed prose meditation The Meadow and a novel, Fencing the Sky. Galvin lives in Laramie, Wyoming, where he works as a rancher, and in Iowa City, where he is a faculty member of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Photograph by Kirk S. Murray.

As Is

by James Galvin

When she sleeps
She must be in Senegal somewhere.
The tide goes out from every shore
In the world,
And in the middle of the sea
A mountain made of water
Holds its breath.

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