Spencer Hanvik was born in Chicago and received a BA and an MFA in poetry from Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.

From the World-Womb of Our Impending Doom

by Spencer Hanvik

What do we hope for, horse? What do we hope for
at this point? There is nowhere to run.
Know that the world doesn’t simply stop,
wherever we run. The blood won’t—
the body passing through its own fires,
the landscape we know, the hard escape of it all.

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