Dežnik v banji
Oklevetaj krsto, da
razpade. Da mrlič not
zgleda kot kak
sushi. Opozori lastnico, da bo grad
zgorel. Da se bo vdihovalo
meso. Da bodo ljudje z
oken metali brisače in
nečke. Držala in
nečke. Izmenično. Kot Teslov
tok. Kot parnik, ki se mu polomi
zunanji mlin.
Kot zvita lisica v
gozdu. Kot otrok, ki
stopa na štokrle in pade.

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