Gabrielle Balkan

Gabrielle Balkan has read more than thirty poems, including U.A. Fanthorpe’s “The Sheepdog” and Derek Wolcott’s “Love after Love.” She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she enjoys cooking with fennel, teasing the cat, and volunteer playing. Gabrielle works in children’s publishing. The title of this poem is on loan from the libraries of tacosavantgarde.com.