[sometimes the poet is there before the act occurs to us ... with a fragment describing a thing that could happen . and how . and maybe why we might wish to go forward in time to stop it being ordinary]
The killing spree began one day in the suburbs. It was the first day of its life so at first it cried out.
It tried to move swiftly into the past—but we got its essence down before it slipped away
into the here-to-stay where it could hide,
where it could become perpetual.
Source
Excerpted from Jorie Graham . The Eloquence . The Atlantic magazine . January 2026
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/jorie-graham-the-eloquence/684952/
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