D. S. Waldman

D. S. Waldman is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford and winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Lucille Medwick Memorial Award. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and ZYZZYVA. He serves as poetry editor at Adroit. 

Leaving the Party

Death was all around him. Maybe you know what this is like, hearing music overlaid with rain. They stop competing after a while.

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