What Rough Beast | Poem for June 13, 2018

Eileen Tabios
from “HAY(NA)KU DEATH POEMS”
—written in the “reverse hay(na)ku” form to visually manifest disappearance

#3

My ears ring
Singing no
Song

 

 

Eileen R. Tabios has released over 50 collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers in nine countries and cyberspace. Her books include a form-based “Selected Poems” series, The In(ter)vention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets 1996-2019; THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL: Selected Visual Poetry (2001-2019); INVENT(ST)ORY: Selected Catalog Poems & New 1996-2015; and THE THORN ROSARY: Selected Prose Poems & New 1998-2010. More information is available at eileenrtabios.com.

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