The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Poetry Society of America’s Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, and three Georgia Author of the Year awards, Sandra Meek has published six books of poems, including Still (Persea, 2020), An Ecology of Elsewhere, Road Scatter, and the Dorset Prize–winning Biogeography.
Perfecto Santiago / Courtesy of the author
Culebra, Puerto Rico, 2018
Let us sit in the open air where days
I work, my hands shaping a small plane
out of sticks. I tell you only
what I li…