Grace Wagner is a queer, nonbinary poet living with a disability in Houston, TX where they teach literature at the University of Houston and work as Assistant Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast. They have studied with Kevin Prufer, Martha Serpas, Robert Pinsky, Henri Cole, and Carolyn Forché. Their work has been featured in Salmagundi Magazine and is upcoming in The Atlanta Review, Palette Poetry, and Bluestem. They were recently honored with an Academy of American Poets Award.

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Field Tech to a Naked Mole Rat

By GRACE WAGNER

It is late
and I am alone except
for you and your colony.