Cole Depuy, the winner of the Negative Capability Press Spring 2020 Poetry Contest, is a Ph.D. student at SUNY Binghamton and recipient of the Provost’s Doctoral Summer Fellowship. His poetry is forthcoming or has appeared in The Penn Review, Ilanot Review, The Maynard, Paterson Literary Review, and elsewhere. He is also a poetry reader for Harpur Palate and instructor for the Binghamton Poetry Project.

POETRY

Labyrinth

By COLE DEPUY

standing on a slithering rock wall / my fingers / untangle your hair from a yew tree