All day long day at the water’s end and halloos after saltgrass anthems to while
away the lovely nothings where nothing lovely returns on wind in absentia from
a witch’s kite unspun and lentor ashake amid marram all day long day at the
water’s end where nothing lovely leaves on wind rewound around a witch’s kite
to while away the lovely nothings where nothing lovely returns all day long day
at the water’s end and halloos after saltgrass anthems.

Derek Gromadzki is a poet and translator. He is the author of the poetry collection Pilgrimage Suites (Parlor Press / Free Verse Editions, 2017), and the chapbook, Horology (Paradigm Press, 2016). His most recent translations, collaborations with Sayuri Okamoto, can be found in Alice, Irice, Red Horse: Selected Poems of Yoshimasu Gozo (New Directions, 2016). He is a 2018 NEA Japan-US Friendship Commission Fellow. He currently teaches at Oberlin College, where he holds the position of Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing.