This poem is taken from PN Review 271, Volume 49 Number 5, May - June 2023.
Jeu d’Esprit(for Michael)
A garden’s a place for talking, so much we agreed,
talking of this and that, love, poems, piss –
then how to write about it,
that functional loving ingestion of (acid?) rain
returned more benign (and alkaline) to earth.
And you, beating about a bush to find a place –
the urethra’s busy push that keeps us live
recycling – thinking too
...
talking of this and that, love, poems, piss –
then how to write about it,
that functional loving ingestion of (acid?) rain
returned more benign (and alkaline) to earth.
And you, beating about a bush to find a place –
the urethra’s busy push that keeps us live
recycling – thinking too
...
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