Andres Rojas

Third Winter in Our Second Country

after/for Charles Simic

On this crystal-fanged night
the unflinching stars

are an old family
photo:

so many here
gone already.

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Andres Rojas is the author of the chapbook Looking For What Isn’t There (Paper Nautilus Debut Series winner, 2019) and of the audio chapbook The Season of the Dead (EAT Poems, 2016). His poetry has been featured in the Best New Poets series and has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in, among others, AGNI, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Massachusetts Review, New England Review and Poetry Northwest.