What is so great about this poem is that it takes five ordinary nouns: coffee, crumb, balcony, sun, and river; and one abstract one: miracle–and weaves them in to a clever, strange sestina.
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About
Robert Peake's poems have appeared in Iota, North American Review, Poetry International, Rattle, and are forthcoming in Magma Poetry.
