![]() Poems from this collection have been anthologized in A Face to Meet the Faces: an Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (2012) and Please Excuse This Poem: 100 Poets for the Next Generation (2015). ![]() Iain Haley Pollock’s first collection of poems, Spit Back a Boy, won the 2010 Cave Canem Prize. ![]() ![]() Shine of the hour, no matter the narrow passage of the street. Of an eye, to meet what we must meet, no matter the dark Through the threshold to look into the livid capillaries Treated pine around the hinge, the scuff and polishĪbove a steel-toe-or the rising and standing up, the walking Of shattering glass, the artful splinter of pressure. Our arms like wings draped on the boys’ downy shoulders.įrom here, we end or we end: the watching and waitingįor the terrible moment-awed by the Leonid shower I sit with my wife on the couch, our sons between, In the instant of the last pen slash downward?Īll the books I have read prepared me for this: The ink of my own name soaking into paper, drying To drag the carcass outside the city wall? Imagine Today the bit in the mouth of the horse arrayed ![]() Neighbors’ names added to a list? Imagine The house is quietĮxcept for the cadenced breathing of the boysĪt their afternoon sleep. The remaining leaves of silver maples and tulip poplars,ĭapples onto the garden grass. Sunlight, outside the window, as it falls through Here’s the problem: the day and hour are bright. ![]()
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