Günter Eich Apocrypha, Light please

[MoonyLuna]

A pretty girl asks
for my autograph,
delighted! Except
it's her cigarette
she wants signed,

then lighted. Think about it.
I do. And am
for a moment
the happiest man
that I have ever known—

I have seen my end
and it is someone else's
body, breath
and lovely
inspiration.


Copyright
Franz Wright

[MoonyLuna]

Featured Poet
Franz Wright


Franz Wright is finishing a new collection of poems called Wheeling Motel and a three-year appointment as poet-in-residence at Brandeis. In 2007 he published Earlier Poems (Knopf) and two chapbooks, The Catfish (Marrick Press) and Address (Vallum).