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Best of Irish Poetry 2010
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Songs of Earth and Light
Barbara Korun poems translated by Theo Dorgan

Done Dating DJs
by Jennifer Minniti-Shippey
Winner, 2008 Fool for Poetry Competition

Richesses: Francophone Songwriter Poets
Edited and translated by Aidan Hayes

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KEN TAYLOR

Ken Taylor was born in Alabama in 1957. He now lives and writes in North Carolina. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Chattahoochee Review, The Stony Thursday Book, elimae, MiPOesias, The New Guard, Whale Sound, Eclectica Magazine, OCHO, Poets & Artists, HAM Literature and Gigantic Sequins. He was the 2011 winner of the Fish Publishing Poetry Prize.

movie for the blind

(for Phoebe)

slough of hearts settling on low trees so

the engines pulling their loads & whistling

by will send them fluttering. otherwise

the hearts don’t beat. it’s only this passing

hulk & wind filling in behind that stirs them.

down the bank & below the pond’s surface

a fish looks up through branches fallen in long

ago & past to where air meets water wavering

& past to the hearts swaying on branches in

the after-whistle wind. but what does the fish

know about which hearts are above water or

branches below & which are their likenesses.

the fish doesn’t try to know. keeps dreaming

engines. & the trees wear hearts on sleeves.

©2012 Ken Taylor

Author Links

Index of Ken Taylor contributions to MiPOesias

'Flash Cards': Taylor poem in Eclectica

A 'found-language' poem by Taylor in Portrait