On knowing
What I didn’t know grew over what I knew. Like sober news
from home, it sobered me. It touched down like a flea of doubt touched
down on me. And bit. So suddenly, like tardy students
at the door, a little sadness on their faces as they make their plea.
My grace, a sham, a fraying pillowcase.
Helicopter seeds. / Annunciation amid / Iowa weather
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Jane Huffman is a doctoral student in poetry at the University of Denver. Her work has been featured in Poetry Magazine, The New Yorker, the Best New Poets Anthology, and elsewhere, and she received a 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Guesthouse, an online literary journal, and she reviews poetry for Publishers Weekly. She received an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
from home, it sobered me. It touched down like a flea of doubt touched
down on me. And bit. So suddenly, like tardy students
at the door, a little sadness on their faces as they make their plea.
My grace, a sham, a fraying pillowcase.
Helicopter seeds. / Annunciation amid / Iowa weather
︎Add “On knowing” to cart
Jane Huffman is a doctoral student in poetry at the University of Denver. Her work has been featured in Poetry Magazine, The New Yorker, the Best New Poets Anthology, and elsewhere, and she received a 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Guesthouse, an online literary journal, and she reviews poetry for Publishers Weekly. She received an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
