Collier Nogues’ poetry collections are The Ground I Stand On Is Not My Ground (Drunken Boat, 2015) and On the Other Side, Blue (Four Way, 2011). Her work has been supported by fellowships and grants f
Only sentient beings can be wretched: a ruined house
is not. Nor is its yard of thinning chickens,
enclosed by what looks like an agility course—
hollowed barrels, nestless lean-tos.
When one chicken