Čebele v rosi
Srebrna, temno zelena in
oker ptičja peresa
so bila razsuta po travi.
Mama se je naga plazila po
štirih in jih izbirala. Je bilo
sonce?
Je bil dež? V zraku je bil
siv prah. Sava je dišala po
mivki. Vijolice so
butaste. Ne poznajo orožja
krompirja. Ključi, ki se
razpirajo kot solze.
Padajo na leglo
terpentina. Padajo pod
napušč. Pod sončni napušč.

Brian Henry has published six collections of poetry, including Astronaut (Arc, 2000/Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002), Graft (Arc, 2002/New Issues, 2003), American Incident (Salt Publishing, 2002), Quarantine (Ahsahta Press, 2006), The Stripping Point (Counterpath Press, 2007) and In the Unlikely Event of a Water (Equipage, 2007). Henry won the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America for Quarantine . Other honors include the Poetry Society’s George Bogin Memorial Award, the 2006 Carol Weinstein Poetry Prize, and a Forward Prize nomination for Astronaut . He has co-edited Verse since 1995, and he also co-edited The Verse Book of Interviews (Verse Press, 2005). He currently teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Richmond in Virginia. Brian Henry’s translation of Tomaž Šalamun’s Woods and Chalices has just been published by Harcourt