“No Thanks,” by Perry Janes (Poetry ’19)

2019 poetry graduate Perry Janes recently had a poem featured by the Poetry Foundation. Read an excerpt of “No Thanks” below:

No Thanks

After W.S. Merwin, sort of

listen
            every day the world is making its meager
mea culpas for Easter peeps arranged on dollar store plates
            at dinner parties invisible fences the dogs run past
for bleach-stained laundry fresh from the laundromat

Find the rest of this poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/153199/no-thanks