Michael Levan has work in recent or forthcoming issues of The Laurel Review, Waccamaw, The Rupture, and Painted Bride Quarterly. He is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Saint Francis and edits and writes reviews for American Microreviews and Interviews. He lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with his wife, Molly, and children, Atticus, Dahlia, and Odette.

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Poet’s Guide to Black-Body Radiation

By MICHAEL LEVAN

Even you,
dull as you feel,
emit a faint shine.