Poetry by Daniel Coudriet
HEARTBEATS

I am a hospital that missed a war that grew outside.
I’ve stolen appliances from empty homes. I’m sorry
for all the songs I didn’t complete. It’s hard
to have a relationship with a room. Sand & wind
burying a walkway with chalk directions, a tree
slowly bending beneath those who climb it.
The way hands feel a fish nuzzling a line, weather
about to turn lonely. Holding a child as it sleeps.

Daniel Coudriet’s first collection of poetry, Say Sand, was published in 2010 by Carnegie Mellon University Press, and his chapbook, Parade, appeared in 2012 from Blue Hour Press. His translation of Argentinean poet Alicia Genovese’s Bridges was published by Cardboard House Press in 2024, and he was previously awarded an NEA Fellowship for Literary Translation. His poems and translations have made recent appearances in Bennington Review, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Moon City Review, Oversound, Prelude, the tiny, and elsewhere.

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