MY BROTHER LIVES IN A MANSION
He sleeps
On an alphabet quilt
He wakes
When the sunlight
Pours into his notebook
He dines
On a breakfast
Of memory
Hidden in shadow
He works
Walking slowly
Through my skull
Until every day is identical
The last The last The last
He sleeps
On an alphabet quilt
He wakes
When the sunlight
Pours into his notebook
He dines
On a breakfast
Of memory
Hidden in shadow
He works
Walking slowly
Through my skull
Until every day is identical
The last The last The last
John McKernan is now a retired comma herder. He lives--mostly--in West Virgina where he edits ABZ press. His most recent book is a selected poems, Resurrection of the Dust. He has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review and many other magazines.