[Realpoetik] JOHN MCKERNAN

[RealPoetik Magazine]

*MY BROTHER LIVES IN A MANSION


He sleeps
On an alphabet quilt

He wakes
When the sunlight
Pours into his notebook

He dines
On a breakfast
Of memory
Hidden in shadow

He works
Walking slowly
Through my skull
Until every day is identical
The last   The last    The last*
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*John McKernan is now a retired comma herder. He lives--mostly--in West
Virgina where he edits ABZ press. His most recent book is a selected
poems, Resurrection
of the Dust. He has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris
Review, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review and many other magazines.*

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