Vivian Wagner
Apologia
Earth,
I’m sorry.
We don’t know
what we’re doing, what
we’ve done, what we’re going
to do. We only know our
names, and yours, and the particular gray
of the clouds this morning, as they shroud
the moon watching over us all, a witness to
the ways we walk dogs, kiss daughters, and keep trying.
Vivian Wagner is the author of the poetry collection The Village (Kelsay Books, 2017) and the memoir Fiddle: One Woman, Four Strings, and 8,000 Miles of Music (Citadel-Kensington, 2010). Her work has appeared in Muse /A Journal, Forage Poetry Journal, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Creative Nonfiction, The Atlantic, The Ilanot Review, Silk Road Review, Zone 3, Eyedrum Periodically, 3QR, and other publications. Wagner is an associate professor of English at Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio.
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