the light yesterday was kind
of obnoxious
noisy clamoring bossy
like children who will not nap
not like the you-can-understand
what-epilepsy-might-be-like light
but a show-offy
sun-moon-death-desert-eternity
shining
and you know
it’s sad
because it’s been wasted on you
both when
it appeared
and found it’s way
romantically through the curtains
and as you
are remembering it now
Author Bio:
I have a story in Madison Smartt Bell’s Narrative Design and essays in Not A Rose by Heide Hatry and The Dan Clowes Reader. I have a book of poems published in 1997, The Small Time Smirker. Essays, artwork, interviews, short stories and op-ed pieces of mine have been published in Chickfactor, Petrichor Review, Foliate Oak, Turk's Head Review, 3Elements Review, Pithead Chapel, Empty Sink Publishing and Meat for Tea. I wrote songs for three albums, under the name The Yips. In 2002, I received an MFA from Emerson College. Currently my agent is working on finding publication for two novels, one of which is being serialized on Ohioedit: http://ohioedit.com/category/columns/my-days-with-millicent-by-gilmore-tamny/.
of obnoxious
noisy clamoring bossy
like children who will not nap
not like the you-can-understand
what-epilepsy-might-be-like light
but a show-offy
sun-moon-death-desert-eternity
shining
and you know
it’s sad
because it’s been wasted on you
both when
it appeared
and found it’s way
romantically through the curtains
and as you
are remembering it now
Author Bio:
I have a story in Madison Smartt Bell’s Narrative Design and essays in Not A Rose by Heide Hatry and The Dan Clowes Reader. I have a book of poems published in 1997, The Small Time Smirker. Essays, artwork, interviews, short stories and op-ed pieces of mine have been published in Chickfactor, Petrichor Review, Foliate Oak, Turk's Head Review, 3Elements Review, Pithead Chapel, Empty Sink Publishing and Meat for Tea. I wrote songs for three albums, under the name The Yips. In 2002, I received an MFA from Emerson College. Currently my agent is working on finding publication for two novels, one of which is being serialized on Ohioedit: http://ohioedit.com/category/columns/my-days-with-millicent-by-gilmore-tamny/.
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