INDIGO BUNTING
ERIN WILSON
Ink pours,
not from the sky,
but from nothingness.
It declares,
music
does not come from
the object!
Language
writes the mind.
Suddenly, one day
the stone temple
exists inside the eyelid.
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Erin Wilson's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in On the Seawall, Manhattan Review, Lake Effect, The Fiddlehead, EVENT, Verse Daily, and elsewhere internationally. The title poem from her collection, Blue, won a Pushcart. Her work will appear in Best Canadian Poetry 2026, and she won a Silver Medal with the National Magazine Awards in Canada. She lives in a small town on Robinson-Huron Treaty Territory, in Northern Ontario, Canada, the traditional lands of the Anishnawbek. Some of her best friends are trees. She refuses to carry a cell phone.