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Tyree Daye. Photo: Marc Hall.
Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina. He is the author of two poetry collections: River Hymns, the 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner, and Cardinal,forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Daye is a 2017 Ruth Lilly finalist and a Cave Canem fellow. Daye’s work has been published in Prairie Schooner, the New York Times, andNashville Review. He won the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship and is the 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence and a 2019 Kate Tufts finalist.
*“Say River, See River”
I threw up the river last night
trout already gutted salamanders rocking
between the books on my bedroom floor
then the river stood up bowlegged it walked
like it was drunk like it was an uncle
so I followed the dizzy river
into my mother’s backyard
watched it fall and flood the houses
pick itself up laugh it off
we splashed past where the men
slept on the ground their low eyes always
where they laid at night I wondered
if they counted the stars together
until it turned into a Lightnin’ Hopkins’ song
21 22 my black dog blues
if they played Spades for planets
toasted Wild Irish Rose to the Seven Sisters
the river took me to a big graveyard
we didn’t cut through
funneled around
ran a damp finger along the fence
the river would catch a name we passed the straight stones
and every so often say one
………….Philip Jones
the dead heard the wet voice
and started calling back River
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