Joseph M. Gerace
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No Treasures Could Talk
Wikipedia Poem, No. 468 After Horace dear turn satyrs into a farm into plowing dust olympic chariots of the romans another man’s joy is to hold soldier’s life its camp theater there he was born soon he was born within sight of the camp that’s life another’s life but among their blazing burst hills with…
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Rabbi Said
Wikipedia Poem, No. 465 there’s no time to explain there’s no dazzle in order to wrestle among its ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants to say not better in the christian sense the jain sits under a tree in order to wrestle among its ants ants ants crawl up his perfect warmth…
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Pink Teeth
Wikipedia Poem, No. 464 rain falling out of the house sparrow who swallows river rushes an aluminum easy noon rain falling out of the sky planes and birds horizontal the sky horizontal too the house grey courtyard blanketed with teeth love is the sky love into the mirrored planes and birds then not the prison wall crawling…
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Three Short Poems
One Nearly noon — Rain falling out of the sky Planes and birds horizontal, then not. Two Not quite summer — River along an aluminum gutter Where is the house sparrow? Three Grey day — Courtyard blanketed with teeth Love slips down one’s throat.
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“Whatever the color and condition of things, open your eyes.”
Below is Robert Hass’s version of Aijaz Ahmad’s literal translation of a Ghalib ghazal: The happiness of a drop of water is to die into a river. When pain is unbearable, pain becomes the medicine. We are so weak our tears become a mild sighing. Now we really believe that water can turn into air.…
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Inside Joke
Wikipedia Poem, No. 463 george meredith tinter-365 the testament of cresseid edmund near perigord tennyson thomas gray elegy written in time of cresseid edmund near perigord the dream-777 tha twee dogs william butler yeats lamia the axeheave john keats meditations in time of civil war robert henryson the testament of the lady of civil war…
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‘Delirium for the Four Legs of a Love’ by Dimitris Athinakis (trans. Karen Emmerich)
I see your yesses coming from afar and my own, like candles, brandish and burn awaiting the centuries A strong wind carries off my hat my glasses my tattoo my arm carries off my leg and an eye [I’m left there smiling before jets gushing the joy of nothingness] joy — it too alone Stay,…
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Statue of My Father
Wikipedia Poem, No. 461 my father says sir we do it there shoots going end to end and driving medically off just now touching a sort of president of son’s along with cannot be halved alone with couldn’t happen to a worse man charge me with his wonderment i will have changed the media landscape…
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Undiscussible (Such
Wikipedia Poem, No. 460 an object use of a material object not a thing in this or explained or explained if furthermore we are undiscussible (such as degree or extent in addition forth comparative suffix -eron -uron which to say that we can all be nature of an object like (simile in things being of…
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Mary Ruefle
think like that no like that sniff around a burrow don’t hunt birds think like this no like this raccoons yes groundhogs yes opossum definitely yes think for yourself no not like that not the robin though nor the house sparrow here give me the controller let me have a go at it nor the…
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