“I find them in the hollow place—
the friend whose heart collapsed
as the train pulled out,
the one whose daughter
didn’t call to tell me,
the one whose cancer
they said was slow growing
a month ago.”
Enjoy this audio recording of “Where They Go” by Joanne Durham from Vol. 33:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy your copy here!
Joanne Durham is the author of To Drink from a Wider Bowl, winner of the 2021 Sinclair Poetry Prize (Evening Street Press), and the forthcoming chapbook, On Shifting Shoals (Kelsay Books). Her work appears in numerous journals. She lives on the North Carolina coast, with the ocean as her backyard. www.joannedurham.com