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The Prayer That Leads Into Darkness
Donovan McAbee
An empty room with no door down a hallway without walls The answer to a riddle no one knows to ask Even the mouse can’t squeal his way through An air of intuition led me here walking on my hands guided by a trick of light
Donovan McAbee is a poet, songwriter, and essayist. His work has appeared in The New York Times, TIME magazine, The Hudson Review, Poetry London, and a variety of other places. His academic monograph Charles Simic and the Poetics of Uncertainty was published in 2020. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and their two children. His poetry collection Holy the Body is set to be released in March by Texas Review Press and was recently named one of “2026’s Most Anticipated Books” by Garden & Gun magazine.
