man in the camp yes it is a campchubby man &balding you smilethere is the trash pile history & your timein italy all run together against the wall& the kids paving a streetyou were I don’t know hummingbored or probably laughingif science teaches us anything about patternswhen the kid on the bike shot youI liked you no Iloved you did I know you bella ciaociao ciao& there isplay & regret in your voiceas you forget the wordsnot just the city the worldgave way when you diedI swear it not just the worldas I see it but the actualworld
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Moriel Rothman-Zecher is the author of the novels Before All the World, which was named an NPR Best Book of 2022, and Sadness Is a White Bird, for which he received the National Book Foundation’s ‘5 Under 35’ honor, among other awards. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Barrelhouse, Colorado Review, The Common, Nashville Review, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere, and he holds an MFA in Poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars, where he received a Donald Hall Scholarship for Poets. Moriel lives in Philadelphia, and teaches creative writing at Swarthmore College.
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