POETRY Magazine cover of March 2008 issue, featuring "Slip n' Slide" by Aurel Schmidt

March 2008

Aurel Schmidt, “Slip n’ Slide (detail),” 2008
 
  • Michael Marcinkowski
  • Campbell McGrath
  • A. Stallings
  • Terrance Hayes
  • János Pilinszky
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So long I have been carrying myself
Carefully, carefully, like a small child
With too much water in a real glass
Clasped in two hands, across a space as vast
As living rooms, while gazes watch the waves
That start...
Poem
Pretty soon the Negroes were looking to get paid.
My partner, Big Trend, wiped his ox neck and said

He wasn't going to wait too much longer. You
Know that look your daddy gets before he whups you?
...
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