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Benjamin Gucciardi
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                                    A Sketch of Happiness in Winter         
   
          One of those nights where the wind 
          unbinds the stars from their constellations
          and Cassiopeia bends to collect her crown
          like a mother on a train
          gathering spilled mints back into her tin 
          and far below I amble through the foothills, 
          whistling, trying to avoid the patches of poison oak
          as I bundle wood for a fire, brushing, 
          probably, against the red
          and jagged leaves.





Benjamin Gucciardi’s first book, West Portal, (University of Utah Press, 2021), was selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. He is also the author of the chapbook I Ask My Sister’s Ghost (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press, 2020). His poems have appeared in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Best New Poets, Harvard Review, New Ohio Review, Orion Magazine, Southern Indiana Review and other journals.




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