Harp & Altar
POETRY
Joshua Cohen
from North Vain, Bluff

Evelyn Hampton

Lily Hoang

Peter Markus

Bryson Newhart

Robert Walser
translated by Mark Harman and Walter Arndt

After
Peter Jay Shippy

After sewing his heart

Into his throat

 

We swathed my son

In mosquito netting

 

And used the Renaults

To pull his body out

 

On the floe as skaters

Danced the starlight waltz

 

Around his corpse until

Their blades cut him free

 

To constellate

In the whirl of symptoms