Joseph Fasano

Joseph Fasano is a poet, novelist, songwriter, and teacher. His new books are The Magic Words (TarcherPerigee, 2024) and The Last Song of the World (BOA Editions, 2024). His work has been widely translated and anthologized, most recently in The Forward Book of Poetry (Faber and Faber). He runs the Daily Poetry Thread on Twitter/X at @Joseph_Fasano_.

After Love

Now that you have lost another version of you, walk out through the new moon in the spruces and lie down in the deep of the clearing. Listen: they are still here, the wild things, migrations moving on again from