CREELEY EYE
in the former
place
the sun stands
my calluses fall off
just an hour
from darkless
dumb impersonates
calm with
a conversation feel
the eye that puckers
at mine
the eye one half
my own fault
Brian Foley is the author of the chapbooks The Constitution (Horseless Press, 2011) & The Black Eye (Brave Men Press, 2010). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Springgun, Action Yes, Saltgrass, Columbia Poetry Journal, Poor Claudia, & elsewhere. He curates the jubilat reading series in Amherst, MA, and co-runs Brave Men Press.