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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Brian Teare Brian Teare is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell Colony. He has published poetry and criticism in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts, St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter, Seneca Review, Verse and VOLT, as well as in the anthologies Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century and At the Barriers: The Poetry of Thom Gunn. His first book, The Room Where I Was Born, won the 2003 Brittingham Prize and the 2004 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His second book, Sight Map, is out from University of California Press; his third, Pleasure, will be published in 2010 by Ahsahta Press. He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches and makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

Vision is question (Ives : July 4th) Brian Teare

afternoon encumbered by thunderbirches turned dirtycurvy piss-yellow stormlight & someone singingbehind the trees' screena place in the soul all made of tunesof long ago "a certain —but it is hardto love kind of ecstasy" old men'ssentimental off-key singingeven when beautymoved themas it moves usto watch fire works in wartimeeerie green "but they sing mimeticsound of missiles in my soul" whistlingbitter smoke smothers the fielda song our fathers loved:Shall wegather at the river?

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