recovery breath

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July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

by Nathaniel Calhoun

 

sometimes
      recovery breath
             doesn’t work
                  and the drowning
                        unfolds
                              on dry land.

 

Nathaniel Calhoun lives in Aotearoa New Zealand, where he provides strategic guidance to teams that use artificial intelligence to monitor and restore biodiversity in ecosystems around the world. He has published work in New York Quarterly, Oxford Poetry, Quadrant, Hawaii Pacific Review, Poetry Aotearoa and others.  Rarely he tweets @calhounpoems

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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IMAGE: Painted scroll: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu)
IMAGE: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu) (Yokoi Kinkoku 横井金谷) , 1985.791,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2025