Peter Leight
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE OTHERS
They’re not like us They don’t like us They don’t live like us They don’t even like each other They don’t know how to live with each other They tear at each other They tear things apart They turn away so we can’t see what they’re tearing up They pull up their hoods so we can’t see their faces They put on gloves so we don’t see what’s in their hands They take what’s in our hands They take what we have They take everything they look at When they look they look away They don’t want to look They don’t look at us They don’t look like us They don’t like us They’re not like us.
PETER LEIGHT lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has previously published poems in AGNI, Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, FIELD, and Paris Review.
ISSUE FOUR features fiction by David Crouse, Susan Daitch, JoAnna Novak, and Ian Stansel; literary criticism by Rick Moody; film writing by J.M. Tyree; creative nonfiction by Michael Levan and Marco Wilkinson; film writing by J.M. Tyree; a David Remnick interview with John Ashbery; poetry by Natalie Eilbert, Kathy Fagan, Sarah Gridley, Philip Metres, Danielle Pafunda, Daniel Poppick, Zachary Schomburg, Sandra Simonds, Analicia Sotelo, and Catherine Wagner; and translations of Jorge Luis Borges and Ye Hui.