Pleasure

Brian Teare

 

A sample poem from the book

 

Torn Text

                                        —after Archilochos

What damage desires

Text, suffers surface

To abrade, puncture,

lacerate? Here white thighs

And the poem[ here

The paper deteriorates ]

And the body of the poem

[ The paper gets worse ]

Having what mouths

[ Holes ]I cannot forgive

him the elegy[ but here

The paper is torn ]mending

The kiss, sewing cuts inside

 

Copyright © 2010 by Brian Teare.