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Kevin Gallagher is a political economist, poet, and publisher living in Greater Boston with his wife Kelly, their children Theo and Estelle, and Rexroth, the family’s German shepherd. Gallagher edits spoKe, a Boston-based annual of poetry and poetics, and works as a Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University’s Pardee School for Global Studies.

Kevin Gallagher

Wild Goose Pagoda

From high in the Wild Goose Pagoda
you see nothing but miles of open field.

Parades of millet with golden tassels wave
beside floating moats of green rice paddies.

The barn was that pile of bricks and broken roof.
The farmer wore a big conical hat.

His wife made it with her bare hands
to cover his face with shade every day.

— Kevin Gallagher