Tim Suermondt’s sixth full-length book of poems, A Doughnut And The Great Beauty Of The World is forthcoming from MadHat Press in 2021. He has published in many places such as Bellevue Literary Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Stand Magazine. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, the poet Pui Ying Wong.
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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