Postcard of Peter Lorre Embracing Lotte Lenya, 1929

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A poem imagining the speaker's father's private despair and infidelity through an old photograph of dancers.

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Will Schutt is the author of one collection of poetry, Westerly (forthcoming from Yale University Press), which won the 2012 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. His poems have recently appeared in FIELD , Harvard Review , The Kenyon Review Online , and The Southern Review . His translations from Italian have appeared in AGNI , A Public Space , and Drunken Boat . He is the recipient of fellowships from The James Merrill House, and the Stadler Center for Poetry. Photo by E. Mckee