Category: Fall 2011 Poetry
Elegy
by Ilya Kaminsky They say so much sky in her chest addicted her. They claim, with inappropriate laughter, she requested to be locked in a bird
To Live
by Ilya Kaminsky To live, as the great book commands, is to love. Such love is not enough ! — the heart needs a little foolishness ! So I fold
four threes are trees heading home from Exchanging Intentions (preverbs )
by George Quasha The space between me and what I touch breathes freer today. It’s possible now to say what keeps saying itself. Ask
mouth surfing from Witnessing the Place Awake (preverbs )
by George Quasha 1 on the pale trail of the pores on fire Speaking with chilies in your mouth produces
Appropriation
by Edward Sanders Dylan heard Dave Van Ronk’s version of “House of the Rising Sun” & recorded it for his first album then asked for Dave’s
You Are a Hologram
by Edward Sanders “You Are A Hologram . . . . projected from the edge of the universe” shrieked the cover of New Scientist (for 1-17- 09 ) &
Saying Goodbye
by Edward Sanders Bus to NYC to see Tuli in ICU at Downtown Beekman Hospital He’s peaceful with now – & – then irregular heart
Eurydice
by Robert Kelly [Eurydice, naked, in leaf shadow, half – hidden in bushes, lilac, springtime, sunset, warm. She speaks.] 1. I have been
Together
by Jonathan Greene In an avenue of trees dead ones hugging live ones, holding on, their tops crying together in high wind. Old loves or old
Lost in the Air
by Jonathan Greene After the stroke the words break up like wind spreading out sky – writing cloud snippets floating away never again