Friday, April 11, 2025

National Poetry Month : Edward Smallfield,

 

I want a porous field

 

the postcard against the lamp

a child’s page

stained with

a child’s field

a red horse

a drowned fence

porous

light soaked

nothing written

grafismes verds

 

 

 

 

Edward Smallfield is the author of The Pleasures of C, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (with Doug MacPherson), equinox, and to whom it may concern. He is also the author of several chapbooks: locate (with Miriam Pirone) and lirio and anonymous (both with Valerie Coulton), sargasso, americana and a journal of the plague year. He lives in Barcelona with his wife, the poet Valerie Coulton.

No comments: