[Realpoetik] BRIAN HENRY

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Sun May 9 13:20:13 PDT 2010


WATER & WEATHER, THE SUN





My mouth makes ice cream from mulch,

I reach the farther shore. *Come*, I motion,

& you follow, skidding across the surface

on your homegrown skidding thing. It floats

along famously, as well as any ski.

After a casual assault, the sun retreats.

My elbows have gone all naugahyde, knees

skinned to the bone from the day’s begging.

I bury my nethers in the sand and wait

for your journey to be complete, sand fleas

scatter as if I’d brought a rod & hooks.

The ice cream is gone but it was good.

I nod off & doze, missing the moment

you go under. The skidding thing skids





CAREFUL NOW



That’s a baby

you’re holding.





*Brian Henry* is the author of five books of poetry, most recently *The
Stripping Point* (Counterpath). His translation of the Slovenian poet Tomaž
Šalamun’s*Woods and Chalices* (Harcourt) appeared in 2008, and his
translation of Aleš Šteger’s *The Book of Things* is forthcoming from BOA
Editions. A Serbian edition of Henry’s poems will appear in 2010.


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