Postcards from the Imagination

In the mail the other day: a review copy of Jay Hopler's Green Squall, winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, selected by Louise Glück. For those of you in the Boston/Cambridge area, Glück will be reading tomorrow evening at Harvard Hillel. Info here.

Anniversary

I said you could snuggle. That doesn't mean
your cold feet all over my dick.

Someone should teach you how to act in bed.
What I think is you should
keep your extremities to yourself.

Look what you did—
you made the cat move.

But I didn't want your hand there.
I wanted your hand here.

You should pay attention to my feet.
You should picture them
the next time you see a hot fifteen year old.
Because there's a lot more where those feet come from.

                                          — from Meadowlands (Ecco, 1996)