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Approach
Stars curl in the shape
of a scorpion’s tail and sparrows
float like gold flecks over the fields. If it's true
death is just a portal through which to pass letters.
Listen. Whatever you’re longing for.
I only knock once on nights like these.
Issue: Summer 2025 / Volume 101/2
Published: November 13, 2025
Catherine Pond is the author of Fieldglass (Southern Illinois UP, 2021). She is the 2025 recipient of the American Poetry Review’s Stanley Kunitz Prize and her poems have been printed recently in Oxford Poetry, Gulf Coast, and The Missouri Review. Pond holds a PhD from the University of Southern California.