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Ahrend Torrey at Lafreniere Park
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Photographs of Ahrend Torrey by Jonathan Dacula

This Is the Very Moment You Have

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—this moment swelling like a bulb

before your eyes, holding sun

slowly illuminating the blinds. 

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Do you hear the wren

through the thin window-glass?

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This is the moment you're holding

air in your lungs, in whatever condition, 

you're alive, you're alive. 

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Lean in close, let me whisper some-

thing very important into your ear

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—you've arrived, you've arrived. 

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From THIS MOMENT, Pinyon Publishing

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Official Website of Ahrend Torrey's Poetry, Including the Latest Release

 

THIS MOMENT

This Moment by Ahrend Torrey

SELECTED POEMS

Field Crickets (First Published in The Westchester Review)

It Doesn't Have to be Lavish to be Grand (First Published in The 2River View)

Watery Dazzling Dialectic (or A Gender Proem) (First Published in West Trade Review)

During Saga Dawa, I Walk to the Marsh; You Should Too (First Published in The Curator)

Proem, After Langston Hughes (First Published in West Trade Review)

Li Po (First Published in MORIA)

Reading Larkins Aubade, Well Before Sunup (First Published in Twyckenham Notes)

Still (First Published in Welter)

Wisteria (First Published in storySouth)

Southern-Faggot Blues (First Published in The Black Fork Review)

Deep Field (Tonight you've turned away from everything…) (First Published in Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature)

Out of All The Ways It Could've Happened (First Published in storySouth)

Red Giant (First Published in The Dewdrop)

Textures (First Published in Red Eft Review)

The Monarchs are Dying (First Published in Pinyon Review)

Ferns (First Published in 805 Lit + Art)

Books

BOOKS

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This Moment by Ahrend Torrey

This Moment

(May 2024)

If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant: The Jane Kenyon Erasure Poems by Ahrend Torrey

If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant: The Jane Kenyon Erasure Poems (January 2024)

Ripples: Poems by Ahrend Torrey

Ripples

(February 2023)

Bird City, American Eye by Ahrend Torrey

Bird City, American Eye (April 2022)

Small Blue Harbor by Ahrend Torrey

Small Blue Harbor

(March 2019)

ABOUT

Poet Ahrend Torrey at Lafreniere Park

Ahrend Torrey (he/him) is the author of This Moment (Pinyon Publishing, 2024); If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant: The Jane Kenyon Erasure Poems (Pinyon Publishing, 2024); For What Are the Blossoms Reaching? (Limited Artist's Edition, American Academy of Bookbinding, 2023); Ripples (Pinyon Publishing, 2023); Bird City, American Eye (Pinyon Publishing, 2022); and Small Blue Harbor (Poetry Box Select, 2019). His work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, Slippery Elm Literary Journal, storySouth, The Greensboro Review,

The Perch (a journal of the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health, a Program of the Yale School of Medicine), The Westchester Review, Welter, and West Trade Review, among others. He is a recipient of the Etruscan Prize awarded by Etruscan Press, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize several times. He lives in Chicago with his husband, Jonathan, their two rat terriers, Dichter and Dova, and Purl, their cat.

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