Egan Garr
Winter 2025 | Poetry
Radiant Point
Look up
The wind picks up
more than just the sound
of the approaching
onslaught
Every event
is this event
Every night
this night in arms
her, desire
Look, the solar
gestures of stars
will leave you
one by one
Your bare feet
on timber boards
The sleeping child
The phone rings
This is history but
not history
You have been
here, are
here again
Look out
in any direction and
get your bearings in the storm
Its parallel
perfect speed
Its perfect
appearance
Perhaps a hand opens
from the silicate
Wouldn’t that
be something
Egan Garr is a queer poet and translator from the American South, now living in Amsterdam. In 2002, they co-founded Versal, a literary journal and later small press. Garr translates contemporary Dutch and Flemish poetry into English, including work by Simone Atangana Bekono, Astrid Haerens, and Iduna Paalman, and is the author of two chapbooks, Terrane (MIEL, 2015) and The Preservationist Documents (Pilot Books, 2012). Poems and translations can recently be found in Bat City Review, Fifth Wheel Press, Asymptote, Always Crashing, and The Canary.