One Poem
by Tom Snarsky
Poem
The trick is not to care too much
about fidelity. Let the loss
-y quality of the audio become
another element in
the composition, the under
-study’s voice quivering a little
for the first two songs. It’s been
a long time since seeing a bear on the moun
-tain; once the beekeeper left,
packed his bees up & brought them to
someplace safer (electric light & a neighbor
-hood watch), they did the opposite
of all my loans
& lost interest
Tom Snarsky is the author of the chapbooks Threshold (Another New Calligraphy) and Complete Sentences (Broken Sleep Books), as well as the full-length collections Light-Up Swan and Reclaimed Water (both from Ornithopter Press). His long poem A Letter From The Mountain is forthcoming from GLYPHÖRIA at Metatron. He lives with his wife Kristi and their cats in the mountains of northwestern Virginia.