Afterward,
we started seeing
a horse in the sky.
Night after night
he’d rear up
on the horizon,
front legs fighting
the other stars as if
trying to slash his way
back through the fabric
of the dark.
We were dark then
too. Everyone
lived far away.
The dogs never
stopped barking.
Amy Miller’s Astronauts won the Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize from Beloit Poetry Journal and was a finalist for the 2023 Oregon Book Award, and her full-length collection The Trouble with New England Girls won the Louis Award from Concrete Wolf Press. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Copper Nickel, The Missouri Review, Narrative, Terrain, and ZYZZYVA, and she received a 2021 Oregon Literary Fellowship. She lives in Ashland, Oregon, where she works as a publications editor for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.