[You’re supposed to thank the fumes. To be grateful]
You’re supposed to thank the fumes. To be grateful / for the toxic patch on the rail track.
Natalie Shapero
Natalie Shapero is the author of the poetry collections No Object (Saturnalia, 2013) and Hard Child (Copper Canyon Press, 2017). Her writing has appeared in The Believer, The New Republic, Poetry, The Progressive, and elsewhere, and she is an editor at the Kenyon Review. She teaches at Tufts University.