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Midnight Sun

It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!


When the dawn gulls call
we meet them near the wharf’s edge.

There is wind. The ferryman
gone, quarters scattered

along the dock. The sun a rusted
knob unhounding light.

Our landscape: blond hills stretch
into more blond hills. Our tongues

stunned in observance of white-tails in the field.
Everywhere, unflinching, the public

glare of August. Never have we been
so involved with our bodies, the risk

of them. A sorrow soft
and punctual as antlers in bloom.


Carlie Hoffman is the author of This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), which is a finalist for the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. Her second collection is forthcoming with Four Way Books in 2023. A poet and translator, her honors include a 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize and a Poet’s & Writers Amy Award. Her work has been published in Los Angeles Review of Books, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, New England Review, Jewish Currents, and other publications. Carlie earned her MFA from Columbia University and is a Lecturer of Creative Writing at Purchase College-SUNY. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Small Orange Journal and lives in Brooklyn.

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