Sarah Heady is a poet and essayist interested in place, history, and the built environment. She is the author ofComfort(Spuyten Duyvil, forthcoming 2021),which was a finalist for the 2019 Ahsahta Press Sawtooth Poetry Prize and the 2017 National Poetry Series;Niagara Transnational(Fourteen Hills, 2013), winner of the 2013 Michael Rubin Book Award; andTatted Insertion(2014), a limited edition letterpress chapbook with artist Leah Virsik. Sarah is also the librettist ofHalcyon, a new opera about the death and life of a womens college, currently in development with composer Joshua Groffman and producer Vital Opera. Sarahs poems and essays have appeared in such journals asFENCE,Newfound,La Vague,Ghost Proposal,where is the river,Jewish Currents, andOmniVerse. She lives in San Francisco, where she co-edits Drop Leaf Press, a small women-run poetry collective. More atsarahheady.com.

from CORDUROY ROAD

pear of dishrags :
pose of her strong against
the window, the rainbowed
evening

it is so hard to find that pax
domestica americana she thinks

the only times ive seen italy
have been in dreams, books
or when beaten : impact : sight
gone white : in the sinks place

a trevi fountain