Amanda Gunn’s debut poetry collection, Things I Didn’t Do With This Body, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2023. Her poetry appears in Poetry, Lana Turner, and Narrative. She is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a doctoral candidate in English at Harvard.

POETRY

Happy and Well

By AMANDA GUNN

She told my grandmother on the phone,
Sometimes—they’re just too happy.