Money Is an Energy by Justin Marks

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend May 15, 2014   Money Is an Energy   Justin Marks

Everybody is already someone else An existential tag line Money is current I would like to not live paycheck to paycheck You could make a pun on currency but not quite Money is an energy nonetheless Dark space        Dark water A long silent drive Dark matter(s) Driving is my personality The methods of one wor(l)d revealing the hidden harmonies of another Prayer card     Lotto ticket       You occupy my pocket My payment has not arrived              Copyright @ 2014 by Justin Marks. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “The poet Niina Pollari has a book coming called Dead Horse, and in it is an amazing poem about debt—how she loves her debt and thinks about it as part of her physical being. Reading that poem...her voice really got in my head, and the notes that I had been jotting down on my phone for whatever my next poem would be became this poem. I owe this poem to Niina Pollari.” —Justin Marks   Justin Marks is the author of A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press, 2009). He is a cofounder of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press, and lives in Queens, New York, with his wife and their twin son and daughter. Most Recent Book by Marks   A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press, 2009) “Living on Someone Else’s Money” by Tom Healy “Blues” by Elizabeth Alexander “Thinking of Work” by James Shea Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038