Moirai Contrapuntal
—for Nancy Beauregard
Erica Reid
| Clotho | Lachesis | Atropos |
| who knows? | ||
| will | all things | |
| start over | ||
| threads | end | |
some how | make art | no matter |
| fate is in | how we | |
| begin moving | their hands | |
| guide them |

Erica Reid is the author of Ghost Man on Second, winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize (Autumn House Press, 2024). Erica’s poems appear in Rattle, Cherry Tree, Colorado Review, and more. She teaches Poetry in Western Colorado University’s MFA program, where she was also a student. ericareidpoet.com

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