Bianca Stone is a poet and artist. Her books include The Mobius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018), Someone Else's Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014), and most recently What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022). Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Nation. She teaches classes on poetry and consciousness in Vermont, where she is Creative Director at the Ruth Stone House.
Fortinbras felt so good / the way he came after everyone was dead / with an army, and their complexes were dead / dead, dead, but still soft, the flush / just barely drained from of their cheeks,