Marianne Boruch is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Figure Going Imaginary (Copper Canyon Press, 2025), Bestiary Dark, and The Book of Hours, for which she won the Kingsley-Tufts Poetry Award. She has also published three essay collections about poetry, including The Little Death of Self, as well as a memoir, The Glimpse Traveler. A professor emerita at Purdue University, Boruch continues to teach in the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College. She lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Photograph by Will Dunlap.

I Lost My Pen, I Lost My Keys

by Marianne Boruch

I lost my pen, I lost my keys,
and my hat somewhere on a table,
the table its room, the field
its horizon, a road like

a dowsing rod bowed low
to remember, emphatic and forked
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