Time I’m Not Here by Graham Foust

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend October 4, 2016   Time I’m Not Here   Graham Foust

All day on all my days, the lives I’m not to process wash in;   anxieties lullaby on and quite like to be gotten among;   but now—and now—one old, abundant flower just screws up the room.            Copyright © 2016 Graham Foust. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “I’m not always so keen on notes to poems, but it might amuse the reader to know that I wrote this poem in the middle of the night after my coffee table collapsed, which terrified me, and which caused a vase of flowers that should’ve been thrown away days earlier—they were dry and smelled badly—to spill onto the floor.” —Graham Foust   Graham Foust is the author of Time Down to Mind (Flood Editions, 2015).  He works at the University of Denver and lives in Denver, Colorado. Poetry by Simonds   Time Down to Mind (Flood Editions, 2015)  "It Is a Small Plant" by William Carlos Williams "The Carousel" by Zachary Schomburg "The Forgotten Madmen of Ménilmontant" by Frank Stanford Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends.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

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