Andrew Nance, a finalist in Narrative’s Fourth Annual Poetry Contest, received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow. He has taught poetry at Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington, New Zealand.

Odyssey

by Andrew Nance

The light dimples as it hits
the window. Isometric fissures spread
on a matte plane. Today is my favorite
kind of day. Night opens, light

concedes to silence: we’ve all taken
part; retreated. Red light out of
a blue sky; rags dipped in mineral
People on couch
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