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Poet: Moving the Bones, Milkweed Editions. Director: The Rainier Writing Workshop, Low-Res MFA.
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The Kingfisher by Rick Barot | Poetry

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By Rick Barot
| Zócalo Public Square Verified
I dream of kingfishers. Their heads big and unhandsome, like mine. Blue with a ruffled crest, as though just risen from bed, with the kohl-black eyes of the previous night. A dark dagger of a beak, to spear the small fish, the small creatures. White feathers over their stocky chests, over a patient heart. I dream of nests. The nest the kingfisher builds in the dirt, burrowing three feet, six feet, as though, like me, it had just lost a father and wanted to sleep near him in the brown ground.
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The Kingfisher by Rick Barot | Poetry

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By Rick Barot
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I dream of kingfishers. Their heads big and unhandsome, like mine. Blue with a ruffled crest, as though just risen from bed, with the kohl-black eyes of the previous night. A dark dagger of a beak, to spear the small fish, the small creatures. White feathers over their stocky chests, over a patient heart. I dream of nests. The nest the kingfisher builds in the dirt, burrowing three feet, six feet, as though, like me, it had just lost a father and wanted to sleep near him in the brown ground.
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Carl Phillips, The Art of Poetry No. 103

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By Rick Barot
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Interviewed by Rick Barot Phillips in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 2018. Photo courtesy of Reston Allen. Since the publication of his first book, In the Blood (1992), Carl Phillips has generated a body of poetry that is singular for its demanding intimacy, its descriptions of the dissonant energies within a self, and its beauty. Phillips has now published thirteen books of poems, which have situated him among the most influential of contemporary American poets.
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