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Francis Dylan Waguespack

Francis Dylan Waguespack is a painter and barback from New Orleans who writes about home, the politics of disaster, and being from a place and in a body that both live under threat. He is 34, and therefore recently found out about birds. His work appears in ONLY POEMS, Salvation South, Delta Poetry Review, Boudin, elsewhere. His debut full-length collection, Tooth Gaps in the Archives, won the 2025 Button Poetry First Book Award and will be published in 2026. He was nominated by January House for a 2026 Pushcart Prize in Poetry.      
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    Three Poems

    Nights like these, the sky tips like a kicked over bucket and tens of millions of wings are stitched to the Mississippi wind’s long seam. But glass houses false stars and promises of endless flight. Then, sends dark dreams. At…