Catherine Wing Poetry

Catherine Wing is an American poet who was born in Kentucky and earned her MFA from the University of Washington. Her poetry has been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and has been published in journals like Poetry and the Chicago Review. She has also participated in several prestigious residencies.

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The Darker Sooner

Wing’s ‘The Darker Sooner’ captures the decline of love with haunting soundplay, uses the approaching ‘black weather’ as symbol of finality.

Then came the darker sooner,

came the later lower.

We were no longer a sweeter-here

happily-ever-after. We were after ever.

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