Dana J. Graef

Étude

—after Amy Sillman’s Little Instrument, 2023–24

I break in

to quadrants

for you

my multicolored

strings my bouts

of green I jumble

when I walk

shapes fall

and some

hear music

Dana J. Graef is the author of the micro-chapbook Vanishing, and co-editor of Earth: Poems of Presence and Possibility, both from tiny wren publishing. She has also written articles and essays on mining, wildness, and climate change. She lives in central Connecticut.