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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.

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