“How to Hold the Heavy Weight of Now,” by Dana Levin

Poetry faculty member Dana Levin was recently featured in the American Poetry Review. Read an excerpt of Levin’s poem below:

She said, “You just made this gesture with your
body–” and opened her arms as if she could
barely fit them around an enormous ball—

“Make that shape again,” she said, and so I did.
“Now let it change,” she said, and I did—

slowly closing the space between my arms,
fingertips converging until they touched—

Read this poem in its entirety here: https://aprweb.org/poems/how-to-hold-the-heavy-weight-of-now