Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author or editor of fifteen books including The Second O of Sorrow and All You Ask for Is Longing: Poems 1994–2014, both published by BOA Editions. His awards include a Fulbright lectureship to the Balkans and two Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowships. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry, North American Review, and the New York Times. He lives in Erie, Pennsylvania, with the poet Lisa M. Dougherty and their two daughters, where he works for the Barber National Institute on Autism.
Greg Jordan, “Moth, Glass, Hand,” Sept. 2009 / Flickr
Before there is sausage and bread
And blood-red wine
Like the light
Over the great lake
Are you a ship
Or a sequin
Something so tiny
It co…
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