Rumena preproga, davaj!
Kropotkin je uporabljal isto
fračo kot David, ki je
zadel Goljata. Mrtvih je
bilo osemnajst, devetnajst,
osemindvajset, dokler se niso
zlikali. Zlikani so oveneli.
V očeh imam trde, okrogle
bucike. Angeli jejo
usnjene kače in tekmujejo
s čevlji. Natakarji so vsak dan
bolj prašni. Zvijam se kot
čebela. Tudi vzdihujem
kot čebela. Tisserie, tisserie,
to je navaden croissant.

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