Bruce Bond, a finalist in Narrative’s Fourteenth and Sixteenth Annual Poetry Contests, is the author of numerous books, including Plurality and the Poetics of Self; Words Written Against the Walls of the City; The Calling; Patmos, winner of the Juniper Prize; Liberation of Dissonance (Schaffner, 2022), winner of the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Literature in Music; Choreomania; (MadHat, 2022); and Invention of the Wilderness (Louisiana State University, 2022). Bond is Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas.

Sparrow

by Bruce Bond

I am searching my ballot for the nameless.

                                                            She is out there, in there,
            I call her nameless,
                                                but I am thinking of a man
            without a home, and I know:
                                                            this is just one example.
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