Echoing Narrative or the Journey Just Begun
a dragonfly drumming against the planet
is amber wind
the sound of night.
echoing in a sewer: a raccoon, branches.
brittle nature. fingering
the city skyline a hallucinate
language parallel
to the constellation of sporadic stars.
a light flickering
shines eternal.
generations build god alphabetically
out of the flesh, &
a mercenary has no home
to climax. is an original impulse
more true than false:
we bend like a river’s silence
the curve magical & etcetera—
Art information
- “Building and Sky” (Bahamas) © Jess Dipierro; used with permission.
Randall Horton is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award; the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award; and, most recently, a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship in literature. He's a Cave Canem fellow, a member of the Affrilachian Poets, and a member of the Symphony: The House that Etheridge Built.
Randall is an assistant professor of English at the University of New Haven. An excerpt from his memoir titled Roxbury has been published by Kattywompus Press. His latest poetry collection is Pitch Dark Anarchy (Triquarterly/Northwestern University, 2013).
Randall read the poem here and others at TW's "Digital Poets and Nature" panel for the AWP 2015 conference in Minneapolis.
