Calvin Olsen is a poet and translator based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His translation of João Luís Barreto Guimarães’s Mediterranean won the Willow Run Poetry Book Award and is forthcoming from Hidden River Arts.
The girls who were talking in the corner not long ago
are just now starting to get up
(grabbing jackets from the coatrack)
taking up their umbrellas again and a forgotten wallet
that the tallest…
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