Collier Nogues
Collier Nogues

Collier Nogues’ poetry collections are The Ground I Stand On Is Not My Ground (Drunken Boat, 2015) and On the Other Side, Blue (Four Way, 2011). Her work has been supported by fellowships and grants from the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Lingnan University. She teaches creative writing in the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s MA Program in Literary Studies, and is a PhD Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, where she studies 21st century anti-war poetry. She also co-edits poetry for Juked and is a contributing editor at Tongue.

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Foreclosure

It is this sense of being watched / or it is You that calls us to responsibility.

Only sentient beings can be wretched: a ruined house is not. Nor is its yard of thinning chickens, enclosed by what looks like an agility course— hollowed barrels, nestless lean-tos. When one chicken starts running they all do, distinct wing-shadows against the dust. We understand ethics to depend on You. And we understand it to […]

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