Rob Shapiro won Third Place in the 2020 Narrative 30 Below Contest. Originally from Massachusetts, he received an undergraduate degree from Elon University and an MFA from the University of Virginia, where he was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. He lives in Brooklyn.

Transcendentalism I

by Rob Shapiro
But if god resembles
anything, let it be


the larkspurs growing
by the highway’s crest—


violet flares stashed
against morning air,
People on couch
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