Description
- Kind: Perfect Bound
- Pages: 48
- Language: English
- Published: February, 2011
- ISBN: 978-1-933675-52-7
Praise
Michael Henson’s love poems, the modern equivalent of blazons, detailed lists of the beloved’s beauties, are that young man’s poems: vivid as haiku, surprising in their metaphors, imagining and realizing in their lines the erotic geography of the body and the mind.” — Richard Hague
Excerpt
Secrets
There are secrets about you.
I will not know them.
You will not tell me.
I will not ask.
All night long
a black wind worries the branches of the oak
I watch the slow moon
shuttle her great white pack across the sky.
And in the morning
the crow at my window tells me
I know everything I need to know.
Author
Michael Henson is the author of Ransack, a novel, and A Small Room with Trouble on My Mind, a book of stories. His poems have been published in Threepenny Review, Red Crow Poetry Journal, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, The Merton Seasonal, Wind, and in the anthologies Smaller Than God: Poems of Spiritual Search, Old Wounds, New words: Poems from the Appalachian Poetry Project and Blue Collar Review. He is the winner of the 2002 Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize. He is a frequent contributor to StreetVibes, the Cincinnati homeless newspaper. He lives in Cincinnati with his wife Elissa Pogue.
