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# One Poem by Dan Chelotti
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/one-poem-by-dan-chelotti/
- Published: 2017-05-17T11:00:41.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:41:12.000Z
- Description: Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected one poem by Dan Chelotti for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
- Author: Wendy Xu
- Tags: Poetry, Hyperallergic Poetry, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:23 (2016, 2017, part 2)

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Paul Wackers, “Better Days” (2017), oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas, 60 x 72 in (image courtesy the artist and Morgan Lehman Gallery)

## New Birds

*for C.B.S.*

Lush Winter.  
Choke Hug.  
Sprite Meadow.  
Blossomless  
Dawn. Still  
Fallow. Twig  
Heave. Weak  
Kneed. Not  
Gone. Not Yet.  
Bridge Song.  
Baraban.  
Oil Can.  
Cry Hope.  
Walkout.  
Whylife.  
The White  
Throated  
Whylife.  
Feather pail.  
Robot Nail.  
The Great  
New Way.  
The Lesser  
Highwaysong.  
The Mirandabird.  
The Blue  
Alltogethernow.  
The Old God.  
The Quiet One.  
The Chimneysweep.  
The White Sun.  
And last but  
Not least,  
The King Tut,  
So named  
For the way  
They tut .

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Dan Chelotti runs the [Blue House Presents Visiting Writer’s Series](http://elms.phoen1xasp.com/calendar/events/home-events/2017-Visiting-Writers-Series?ref=hyperallergic.com) at Elms College. His poems have appeared in *Boston Review*, *Conduit*, the *Iowa Review*, and *Poetry*. His writing and interviews have appeared in the Huffington Post, the Kenyon Review Online, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the author of [*x*](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1938073398/?tag=hyperallergic-20&ref=hyperallergic.com) (McSweeney’s).

*Readers are encouraged to submit 3–5 poems as a PDF to Wendy Xu for consideration at* [*poetry@hyperallergic.com*](mailto:poetry@hyperallergic.com)*.*