I wouldn’t write at all if it weren’t
for myriad writers before me whose works showed me what was possible. The poems
of this series are small offerings of respect, of thanks, to those muses. –
Brian Beatty
There are gentlemen in
the park
with nowhere to go,
guaranteed.
Sometimes they emerge
from the shadows
knives or guns drawn
to put on little shows.
Absurd comedy or grave
tragedy,
you choose. To them it’s all work.
– Brian Beatty
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Brian's recent collections of poetry are Dust and Stars: Miniatures and Brazil, Indiana.
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In college I carried around Stevens' Collected Poems like it was my university ID. Maybe it was.
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