I have found you nine times before, maybe ten And I’ll find you again (Emily St. Mandel, Station 11)

Nava Fader

 

 

dear honeysuckle dear wind that shook
the rafters dear rafters 

dear tumult dear
you don’t know what you’ve got 

dear absence of quiet
sound of quiet’s terrible 

wingspan swan song
stays for a good long time 

I did not ask you
things 

elbowed from feather your lightest
touch 

fuck you and you
love spring eternal and all 

that get the joke
waiting the worst 

of it. Niagara
falls for one

last time un-
remarked upon 

dear quiet
of absence dear 

one wished
for and away 

shoofly
pie the chickens 

come home to 

 

 

Nava Fader attended SUNY Buffalo’s Poetics Programs, writing her thesis on Adrienne Rich. She has two full-length collections and several chapbooks out in the world. Much/some/a bit of her poems are pilfered from other poets (Garcia Lorca, Sylvia Plath, Rimbaud, Michael Basinski, JH Prynne) as well as the internet at large, particularly Wikipedia. She views poetry-making as a cobbling together….and a curating and reusing of what is already around on paper and online and in the mouths of (insert noun here).