Amorak Huey

Aubade with Three Geese

this morning three geese make themselves at home in the water
laked at the edge of a vacant lot down the block 

as if their relentless journey
was always going to bring them right here
into my day

enough to make me believe momentarily
maybe we deserve the beauty we get
I know how that sounds

I woke with your absence knotted in my body

I did not mean to fall asleep before you
I would blame the moon
a day past full and already disappearing

what’s wrong with me

nothing we could not fix with stillness
together even in temporary water

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Amorak Huey is author of five books of poems including Mouth, out from Cornerstone Press in January 2026. Co-founder with Han VanderHart of River River Books, Huey teaches at Bowling Green State University. He is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2024).