No. 42 Winter 2024

Hailey Leithauser The One Who Ate the Sugar

The one who ate the sugar,
ate the syrup, ate the cobbler
and the cake, the one who
licked the sugar, licked the batter,
licked the butter from the spoon
stole the twilight, stole the starlight,
stole the porch light, stole the moon.


Hailey Leithauser’s books are Swoop (Graywolf 2013) and Saint Worm (Able Muse Press 2019) She has recent or forthcoming poems in Agni, Alaska Quartley Review, Revel, and other journals.