PLAISIR D'AMOUR
Invisible splinter, remains
of a forgotten glass, left
inevitably, no matter
the cleaning.
So much for the everyday.
EQUAL & OPPOSITE
A day given
to cloudbursts, and
two women on the train
dress for the chances,
one in boots,
the other sandals.
MAKE IT NEW
Is it the difference
that lack of sleep makes? Takes
the shine off?
SIC TRANSIT
Where once the Iron Duke
slaughtered thousands and crushed
the hopes of millions
fighting his losing battle
a boot by his name
trods boggy ground. The first
forgotten. Nobody called him
Welly then.
TOMBSTONE
Robert Zipper
Marquis of Trousers
Slayer of Foreskins
TRY IT
Shared discovery
of a particular
motion: "If I shake
my hands
just right
I can feel
the bones rattle."
And suddenly
they're all
doing it.
Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University
of California Press).
http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
"Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's Random House Book of
Twentieth Century French Poetry has a bilingual anthology so
effectively broadened the sense of poetic terrain outside the United
States and also created a superb collection of foreign poems in
English. There is nothing else like it." John Palattella in The
Nation
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