This poem is taken from Stand 237, 21(1) March - May 2023.

Timothy Houghton Three Poems
Zama
    the 1790s; stationed in Asunción, Paraguay
    after Antonio di Benedetto

This sad man
goes to his beard for support—
stroking it, noting it. The sculpted point
brings finger and thumb
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