What Keeps
We live on a hillside
close to water
We eat in darkness
We sleep in the coldest
part of the house
We love in silence
We keep our poetry
locked in a glass cabinet
Some nights We stay up
passing it back and
forth
between us
drinking deep
Credit
From The Essential C. D. Wright (Copper Canyon Press, 2025) by C. D. Wright, edited by Forrest Gander and Michael Wiegers. Copyright © 2025 by C. D. Wright. Reprinted by permission of the Permissions Company, LLC, on behalf of Copper Canyon Press.
Author
C. D. Wright
C. D. Wright
Author of numerous volumes of poetry, C. D. Wright served as the poet laureate of Rhode Island, and in 2013 was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Date Published
01/01/2025