But if // you leave it be, refuse to name it, yellow / eyes dance in the jar of the night like stars.
Barbara Duffey
BARBARA DUFFEY is a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in poetry and the author of two poetry collections, most recently Simple Machines (The Word Works, 2016), which won the 2015 Washington Prize. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Western Humanities Review, Blackbird, and elsewhere. An associate professor of English at Dakota Wesleyan University, she lives in Mitchell, SD, with her son and their chinchilla.
