My Dimension

Beautiful weather here now,
            if you’re blind.  Summer
                        with that fall bite in the night air,
            and through my window,
                        the tree frogs’ hum like a flood.
                                    We don’t like redundancies.
            We think only other people repeat their stories.
                                    I thought I saw a world.
                        I thought I saw someone’s
boot on someone else’s neck.

 
Bruce Weigl

Bruce Weigl's most recent poetry collection is Apostle of Desire, forthcoming in 2025 from BOA Editions, Limited. He is a recent winner of the Robert Creeley Award for poetry. He is the author, editor, co-editor, translator and co-translator of many books of poetry, essays and poetry in translation. Weigl is currently at work co-translating The Tale of Kieu, the Vietnamese epic.

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