Ana Pugatch

Ana Pugatch is the '20-'21 Poetry Heritage Fellow at George Mason University. She is a Harvard graduate who worked in Asia for several years before recently returning to the states. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as The Los Angeles Review, Foothill Poetry Journal, Cagibi, and The Bangalore Review, among others.

“Moonless,” “Ars Poetica” and “My Mother’s Stories”

From the window of the faded ranch
I watched a bird floating in the kiddie pool:
a loon, with its reticulated band of stars.
I knew which bird it was from the tilt