in the still of the night

Dara Wier

in the still of the nightwhen not a thoughtchills with not a breezeanywhere to be foundnot a nightbird callingnot a fine light flickeringno crickets, no crickets singingno far far away train whistles callingnot a rustlenot a shimmerthe way a petal fallson its ownaway from all the otherswith no one watchingthat’s how one human leaves us

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Dara Wier is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including In the Still of the Night (2017), You Good Thing (2013), and Selected Poems (2009), all from Wave Books. Her poetry has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and American Poetry Review.

Conduit

Winter 2018

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Editor in Chief
William D. Waltz

Deputy Editor
Brett Astor

Assistant Editor
Kyle Constalie

Associate Editors
Steven Lee Beeber
William Stobb
Paula Cisewski

Conduit is a biannual literary journal that is at once direct, playful, inventive, irreverent, and darkly beautiful. Despite common sense and the laws of economics, Conduit has been thwarting good taste, progress, and consensus for over twenty years. Conduit publishes distinctive voices of literary merit—experimental to accessible, established to emerging—in snazzy volumes, featuring work that demonstrates originality, intelligence, courage, and humanity. Conduit champions a fresh mix of writers. If that isn’t enough, Conduit reaches beyond the literary by interviewing astronomers, ethno-botanists, artists, graphic artists, and historians, et cetera, believing a vigorous imagination is one that is cross-pollinated by diverse areas of human inquiry.

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