Near Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Near Vanderbilt

University

Medical Center

A.M. Juster

There are no silences or stars.
I hear the pickup trucks and cars,

and choppers too, which soon become
like summer mowers with their hum,

as all throughout each evening hour
they land upon the concrete tower.

I find it easy to ignore
what those incoming come here for

and everything their flying brings
when time begins to shear our wings.

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A.M. Juster
Poet

A.M. Juster's original and translated poetry has appeared in eleven books as well as Poetry, The Paris Review, and The Hudson Review. In 2025 Paul Dry Books will publish his first children's book, Girlatee, and W.W. Norton will publish his translation of Petrarch's Canzoniere.

Photography by Amy J. Lewis