Abigail Chabitnoyis the author of In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful (Wesleyan, 2022) and How to Dress a Fish (Wesleyan, 2019), shortlisted for the 2020 International Griffin Prize for Poetry and winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award. She teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts low-residency MFA program and is an assistant professor at UMass Amherst.
would those who used
to be weather
have a word for
the weight of fall
sky setting in may?
again i am inclined
to ask what i have
done.
my moon/scape
goat insecure
ly reflected in
a pool of my
making—…