Geoffrey Nutter is the author of four collections of poetry: The Rose of January (Wave Books, 2013); Christopher Sunset (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the 2011 Sheila Motton Book Award; Water’s Leaves & Other Poems (Wave Books, 2005), winner of the 2004 Verse Press Prize; and A Summer Evening (Center for Literary Publishing, 2001), winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize. He teaches at New York University and lives in New York.
Children picking through the rocks
beside the river on a spring day.
What are they looking for? Old green
net tangled on broken pilings; a couple
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