Hunger Mountain - Vermont College Journal of the arts

Overdue

by Michael Burkard

Found that meteor
near the window of the field -
jalopy stars of rain
left in the grass – on the stones
salt invisible envious arms
of envy – arms of a spider -
childhood not rain said the rose
womanhood not fog said the slow moon
mother not double of father said the
imitated and stolen story

“Czy Moge Pojechaé Obretem Do Z” by Michael Burkard

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Michael Burkard

Michael Burkard’s book of poems lucky coat anywhere will be published by Nightboat Books in January 2011. Nightboat also published Envelope of Night (2008). Michael is also the author of Unsleeping (Sarabande, 2001) and Pennsylvania Collection Agency (New Issues, 2001), Entire Dilemma (Sarabande, 1998) and My Secret Boat (A Notebook of Prose and Poems) (W. W. Norton, 1990). He has received a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and two grants from both the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches in the MFA Writing program at Syracuse University and has also worked as an alcoholism counselor, particularly with children whose lives have been impacted by alcoholism.