[Realpoetik] BRIAN HENRY
RealPoetik Magazine
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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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