Speča Venera in Kupido Pokrajina s pepelom in Fokionom
No, tisti Poussin, ki naj ne bi bil
stoprocentni Poussin, ker
Venera tako lepo usloči nogo. Pa
je! Z Alejandrom sva prišla
v Tulo, do term, s templjem in
bazenom, ki me je
spominjala na travo pri drugem
Poussinu. Fokionova žena
pobira pepel svojega po krivici in
kruto pobitega moža.
Pod vodo ga ljubim. Ud se mi
ne pomiri niti v korieri
na poti nazaj in voda kroži,
kot bi bila oblak.

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