Justin Danzy is a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is completing his MFA. He was the 2019 Gregory Pardlo Fellow at the Frost Place. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in West Branch and Guesthouse among other places. He is from Southfield, Michigan.

POETRY

The very look of it made me thirsty

By JUSTIN DANZY

We never learned to see the miraculous, only to wait for it.