Poetry

Malachi Black is the author of Storm toward Morning, a Lannan Literary Selection and chosen for the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets Series, as well as two limited-edition chapbooks: Quarantine and Echolocation. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he earned a BA in literature from New York University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers. Black is assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of San Diego and lives in California.

Three Poems

by Malachi Black

I Have Forgotten You, My Self

But still, like smoke
                                                 above a blown-out match
you linger in the dimming
                                                 aftermath, grayer and fainter
than a breath: a quiver
                                                 silvering the once-gold air,
slowly curling over
                                                 but more slowly blurring back

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