Thomas Fink
OBLIQUE NURTURANCE
How many
homes
do they
own this
week? Do those leftovers
still smell fresh? Sleek & plump. Nomenclature struts.
Resplendent commodity
existence shrieks
unity.
One may
be quickened by
an intelligence flashing intermittently.
A generous
creed? Mutant roses?
Precipice of joy.
Hard copy
is
no longer
accepted. Too visceral. They
opt for
a placid lack reaching far
into the buttery
sunset. “I appreciate your
appreciation. By
extension: you.” The fullest this
radical narcissism can muster.
TREND SPIN
Welkin
waxes raging chemical blue. Last
month on
Cable, where common
graphic narrative armature gets dosed
with hyperbole, central eccentricities were naturalized.
This strikes at
some unprotected
core: eccentric demographics’ nod
to a banal familiar. (No elitist
laugh track infiltration
could
dam[n] it.)
Normality, bemused,
lobbies for its next
spin.
Thomas Fink has published 12 books of poetry— most recently Zeugma (Marsh Hawk Press, 2022) and A Pageant for Every Addiction (Marsh Hawk, 2020), written collaboratively with Maya D. Mason. His Selected Poems & Poetic Series appeared in 2016. He is the author of Reading Poetry with College and University Students: Overcoming Barriers and Deepening Engagement (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), as well as two books of criticism, and three edited anthologies. His work appeared in Best American Poetry 2007. Fink’s paintings hang in various collections. He is Professor of English at CUNY-LaGuardia.previous page     contents     next page
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