Even grass prays for meaning, each
blade marrying dirt and light.
The moon inches up, confessing
to both envy and lust.
We spoke for an hour
about giving ourselves assignments
without getting permission.
July. Persimmons are in season.
Red wine and blue smoke.
Steve Cannon has left the building.
The sky is lost in a purple robe.
The bells of St. Mark’s give me a chill.
Grass rejoices when we come home.
And leaves applaud the wind.
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright is a publisher, critic, eco-activist, impresario, and artist, best known as a New Romantic, Surrealist poet. He is author of 17 books of verse, including Blue Lyre from Dos Madres Press and Party Everywhere from Xanadu. Recent poetry is in New American Writing, Sensitive Skin, Posit, and Big City Lit. Wright formerly ran Cover Magazine for 15 years. He is a Contributing Editor to Local Knowledge Magazine and reading series. He has hosted numerous events in New York at La Mama, KGB Lit Bar, and Howl! Happening. Art and literary criticism appear in ArtNexus and American Book Review. Currently he publishes Live Mag!, a journal of art and poetry. He’s a Kathy Acker Award winner for poetry and publishing, winner of Theater for the New City’s poetry contest, two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and two-time artist-in-residence at eMediaLoft.
www.jeffreycypherswright.com