When she entered the apartment for the last time—or for what felt like the last
time—she saw a grapefruit on the front hall table.

It seemed to have been put there to keep down a piece of sheet music, and
before she announced her arrival, she devoured it.

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Graham Foust is the author of five books of poems, including To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems, a finalist for the 2014 Believer Poetry Award. With Samuel Frederick, he has translated three books by the late German poet Ernst Meister: In Time’s Rift (Wave Books, 2012), Wallless Space (Wave Books, 2014), and Of Entirety Say the Sentence (Wave Books, forthcoming). He works at the University of Denver.

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