June (The rain is falling in veils)
June (We’re waiting for our dog to die)
June (I dug the hole and the dog watched)
June (I realize now in last week’s poem)
June (And we’re past the solstice now)
Nathaniel Perry is the author of two books of poetry, Long Rules (Backwaters Press, 2021) and Nine Acres, winner of the 2011 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize (Copper Canyon Press, 2011). His work has appeared in Image, Michigan Quarterly Review, New Letters, and elsewhere. He is editor of the Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review. 
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