You sit there in retirement, the shotCatching the slant of Miami’s morningLight across your face, your glasses lowDown upon your nose in such a wayThat I remember you. There are lush treesIn the background, orange maybe, some fruitTo fill the scene with tropical suggestion.Your hair’s cut short, looks black. It really seemsLike you, the only […]
Author: David M. Katz
David M. Katz is the author of four books of poetry—most recently In Praise of Manhattan, preceded by Stanzas on Oz and Claims of Home, all three published by Dos Madres Press, and The Warrior in the Forest, published by House of Keys Press. Poems of his have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, The New Criterion, PN Review (UK), The New Republic, The Hopkins Review, Shenandoah, Alabama Literary Review, The Cortland Review, and The Ekphrastic Review. He blogs frequently on his website, The David M. Katz Poetry Blog (davidmkatzpoet.com).
Ubi Sunt
They are all gone into the world of light! –Henry Vaughan Where are they now, the clerks gone postal,The grumblers, the low-paid ones? Gone.But gone too are the boys of little meritFrom the Ivy League or Stanford, Gone, though favored long ago,More than all the rest. Curmudgeons, quiet ones,Office managers. Where have they gone,The stragglers and the […]