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offensive:
soul's cruel Through.
To think gimpy
frigidaire. choler. Swollen dimes.
Clashrooms where off sluggish through
a blue staggering
on appeased
if hairstyle up this
blue if to
keep the mayor's
glass bullseye
clip into a
pan of rainbow. Maximum
crease roams ruthless mulls
rim matter, mute &
riding canyon, isn't culture's
runt mathematics. Mock who merely
repeats mounds relentlessly
mown incandescent. Cowers, river intelligence. A Professor of English at the City University of New York-LaGuardia, Thomas Fink is the author of Gossip: A Book of Poems (Marsh Hawk Press, 2001), and Surprise Visit (poems, Domestic Press,1993), as well as "A Different Sense of Power": Problems of Community in Late-Twentieth-Century U.S. Poetry (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001) and The Poetry of David Shapiro (FDUP, 1993). His work has been published in Aught, Shampoo, Moria, American Poetry Review, Poetry New York, American Book Review, The Americas Review, Talisman, Verse, LIT (forthcoming), Minnesota Review, Rain Taxi, Skanky Possum, and other journals. |