“Closed all the windows to the heat How still Frances
at this time of day How still I Feeding you means sitting means
my body does my work I’m so hot with you against me the way
it used to feel in New York in July when loving was new and my body
a poor translation of a language I can’t speak can’t decipher one insect’s song….” Kay Cosgrove
—Kay Cosgrove, Eckleburg No. 22
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Kay Cosgrove is the author of Anybody Home? (Blue Edge Books 2023). She received a BA from Fairfield University, an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD in American Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. She is the recipient of awards from The Academy of American Poets, Inprint Houston, and The Westchester Review. Her poetry has appeared in The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, and EPOCH Magazine, among other journals. She lives in Philadelphia. Read more at kaycosgrove.com.