Two by Pierre Joris

Two by Pierre Joris

R Train Spotting

young man

head shaven

pale serious mien

agingly punkish

reading deeply

in Spinoza’s Ethics

from 59^th Street

until he gets out

at Pacific, sud-

denly gone

before I can doff

my cap verbally

or even nod

approval.

2.28.2012

QUERY

how can I get

from seepage

to sea page

this morning

without leaving

this seeded page?

Pierre Joris is a poet, translator, essayist & anthologist who has published more than 40 books. Just out: Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader and Pierre Joris:  Cartographies of the In-between, edited by Peter Cockelbergh. Forthcoming are Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj (poems, Chax Press), The University of California Book of North African Literature (anthology), Aljibar America (Poems 2000-2011 Black Widow Press,) & his translations of The Collected Late Poems of Paul Celan (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux).