AUTHOR'S NOTE:

I was walking down a desolate stretch of beach with a friend in Puntarenas, a port town that feels like a Graham Greene setting–elegantly decaying & a little dangerous, like making small talk at a cocktail party with someone who might be hiding a knife under a threadbare velvet jacket. Birds screamed overhead, I was thinking about how easily love ends, and this poem arrived like a little gift.

BIO:

Kate Angus is a founding editor of Augury Books. Her work has appeared in Indiana Review, Subtropics, Verse Daily, Best New Poets 2010 and 2014 and others. She is the recipient of A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Orlando Prize for Creative Nonfiction.