Terese Svoboda is the author of the novels Dog on Fire (2023) and Roxy and Coco (2024), as well as eighteen other books of poetry and prose, a memoir, and the biography Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet. Winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and a finalist in Narrative’s 2011 Winter Story Contest, Svoboda lives in New York City and Victoria, BC.


Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan

Why Wane, Why Not Wax?

by Terese Svoboda

A line on my computer screen
equals an EKG of a bus bounce—
okay, I dropped it—signals

that its seeing will falter, its bits
break on a faux horizon
People on couch
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