Andrew Zawacki is the author of three books of poetry—Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House, 2009), Anabranch (Wesleyan, 2004), and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia, 2001). A former fellow of the Slovenian Writers' Association, he edited Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (White Pine) and edited and cotranslated Aleš Debeljak's new and selected poems, due next fall from Persea. His translation from the French of Sébastien Smirou, My Lorenzo, is forthcoming from Burning Deck. He teaches at the University of Georgia and is Coeditor of Verse and of The Verse Book of Interviews.
from "Storm, lustral: unevensong"
A tractor rasping its talon
along the dune
blanched floss silk
off the sound
the pupil
recite its conjugations of gold :
rape seed paper lantern
mimosa spider web
a steeplechase of cumulus
lithographs the bay at
eventide
by this house composed
in aquarelle pine plate glass
& ardoise with pajama blue
shutters & samurai
ironwork
a winter
garden to keep the winter out
but not out of sight :
recycling what murmurs
volt after volt
goodbye
it's okay
goodbye
white flame in a white
fog in a windflower coming
to meet us
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