Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Edwin Torres


Poet Edwin Torres Reading at Parachute: The Coney Island Performance Festival at the New York Aquarium. Photo © Edward Hansen


Help Me Rude the Imperfections

Help me rude the imperfections thrown my way.
Torrential past — the mortars I duck.
Let me invent my downward spire, trench the worm.
Who, in the name of telling, leaves their tower tallest?
Fire born, of distant breath, wrecks
distant come. Taut,
the devil’s gun, run aground
by stun.
Do you know actual poetry things
they ask, no I say.
Trapped in stanzas, wearing feet
for meters.

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