Nick DePascal is the author of Before You Become Improbable (2014), winner of the inaugural West End Press Poetry Prize. Born in Tucson, he received a BA in creative writing from the University of Arizona and an MFA in creative writing from the University of New Mexico, where he teaches English. DePascal lives in Albuquerque with his wife and son.

Four Poems

by Nick DePascal

Autumn in an Old House

My wife is heavy, round.
A brick laid on a bubble.
Thick the smell of smoke

from the open stove. The last
branch peeled of leaves bends
in the wind. Part of the trick


is to keep moving. Part
is to stand totally still.
People on couch
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