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Ukrainian-American poet Stella Hayes is the author of the poetry collection One Strange Country (What Books Press, 2020). She grew up in Brovary, a suburb outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, and in Los Angeles. She earned a creative writing degree at University of Southern California and is a graduate student at NYU studying for an M.F.A. in poetry. Her work has appeared in Poet Lore, Poetry Project’s The Recluse, Stanford’s Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, and Translation, The Lake, Prelude, Spillway, among others. She’s poetry editor at Washington Square Review.

THE PLEASURE IS IN THE WORK by Stella Hayes

Monday, 14 November 2022 by Stella Hayes
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                     Books I put up next to you.

As close as I can without belonging. Gods in awe of other gods.

                     Digging up love as new each time. 

 

                     As I show a willingness to love

You in one lifetime. Rodin’s marble back. 

                     A fragment in my hand.

 

                     How you contract in me. 

This is what I know. I am here alone. 

                     Death is only good at one thing.

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