Kimberly Grey is the author of several books, including Bewilder Meant (Persea, 2027) and The Opposite of Light, winner of the 2015 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. The recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, she earned a PhD in comparative literature and creative writing from the University of Cincinnati and teaches at the University of North Texas.

The Mercy of Pronouns

by Kimberly Grey

The large difficulty of mercy is that it’s full of people
moving and sometimes you are not one of them.

I say this to him.


What I mean is there’s no interpretable order, no
structure, no owner. No one, holding a flower,
you can predict at your door.
People on couch
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