Ghazal for Finally Leaving What Has Already Left

Meg Day, selected for Best New Poets 2013, is the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (forthcoming 2014), winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize; When All You Have Is a Hammer, winner of the 2012 Gertrude Press Chapbook Contest; and We Can’t Read This, winner of the 2013 Gazing Grain Chapbook Contest. She has also received awards and fellowships from the Lambda Literary Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the International Queer Arts Festival. She is a PhD fellow in Poetry & Disability Poetics at the University of Utah. (updated 10/2014)