John Vieira


we love all zero here

leave your
logo t-shirts,

flags,
stained-glass windows,

patchwork quilts,
etc.

at the open
threshold

before coming in
for refuge

it is near
two hours
to find

the sounds
a man is

the boy
poses
to love

it happened
it began

the end now
is following me
a tennis match

comfort food
at the shore

before we die
one another
certainly

door
stop

when
open




John Vieira's work has been presented and/or appeared at many institutions, including The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church (NYC), The Writer's Center (Washington, DC), The Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry (Miami), the Pace/MacGill Gallery (Midtown Manhattan), and the Artpool Art Research Center (Budapest), and has appeared in print (including in Agni and Rolling Stone) in the U.S. and in over a dozen other countries.
 
 
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