Douglas Penick was a research associate at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, wrote the Canadian NFB’s series The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Leonard Cohen, narrator) and libretti for two operas: King Gesar and Ashoka’s Dream (Santa Fe Opera) with Peter Lieberson. Short pieces have been published in, among others, Agni, Bombay Gin, Cahiers de L’Herne, Hyperallergic, and Parabola. Read A Journey of the North Star and Dreamers and Their Shadows. (Photo credit: Martin Fritter)
I’d been thinking about leaving. I’d been thinking how there’s something about out here. Before long it’s a new January and you’re hungover with a heartache for a man you won’t see for several years until he pops up on that very popular, critically-acclaimed sitcom with that actress you learned to like, then hate, then feign indifference abou
The leak in your breathing/ tube makes a cartoon squeak./ It takes two nurses, silent/ as nuns, to place you/ in my arms...
If I have already/ gone insane/ but I want to get/ crazier yet,/ what’s my move?/ Go outsane?
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