hush then gust
& leaves
turn over silver
clouds coffer the sky
marking off sections
of less & more dark
down the block
an overhead panel
slides open its slot
one white house klieg-lit
everything else violet
Rebecca Foust’s new book, ONLY, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in September 2022. She’s the author of three chapbooks including The Unexploded Ordnance Bin, winner of the Swan Scythe Chapbook Award and four books including Paradise Drive, winner of the Press 53 Award for Poetry. Recognitions include the Pablo Neruda Prize, the CP Cavafy and James Hearst poetry prizes, a Marin Poet Laureateship, and fellowships from The Frost Place, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Sewanee. Recent poems are in The Cincinnati Review, The Hudson Review, Narrative, Ploughshares, POETRY, and elsewhere.