JONAH WINTER is the author of Maine (Slope Editions, 2002) and Amnesia (Field Poetry Series, 2004). His poems have appeared in recent issues of The Literary Review, Tarpaulin Sky, Margie, 5 A.M., Boston Review, Ploughshares, and Ducky. He recently made his operatic debut with the Metropolitan Opera.

My name’s not K. I’m not an astronaut.

I’ve never set my neighbor’s fields on fire

or passed out in the corner of a boxcar.