Mohammed Trains for the Beijing Olympics, 2008 (live, Denver)
Brian Turner reading “Mohammed Trains for the Beijing Olympics, 2008,” live in Denver, Colo., April 10, 2010, at the book launch for Phantom Noise.
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White Phosphorus (live, Denver)
Brian Turner reading “White Phosphorus,” live in Denver, Colo., April 10, 2010, at the book launch for Phantom Noise.
In the Guggenheim Museum (live, Denver)
Brian Turner reading “In the Guggenheim Museum,” live in Denver, Colo., April 10, 2010, at the book launch for Phantom Noise.
A Pair of Small Ears
I have come to translate the silence. I’ve bought paper and pencils and a pair of small ears. I ask you not to disturb me until the task is done. First I will unwrap the ears and place them face up on the floor. You will observe their strangeness these tiny shallows […]
My Daughter’s Habit
A month’s respite doesn’t stop the heart tilting in its cradle at the knock, the scene replayed before I open the door. I know from her expression what it is she wants, but still she asks, and I fetch, like a dog, hand over the score, notice once more the half-moon scar […]
Date Unknown
I will walk up a path policed by poplars the sky will be cloudless and blue. In my hand an empty suitcase scented with lavender, swinging. A patient will skitter past in raincoat and scarlet slippers and I’ll tip my head. In front of a circle of lawn and gothic fountain will […]
Elimination
Although he came from the mountains (this much I learnt) he didn’t understand my words for snow. I fluttered my fingers in front of him but he only saw the wings of birds. I led him to the window wrapped myself in my arms at the shivering sky but he […]
Under a Stone
Leaf, you no longer know what it means to be a leaf under a stone. You’ve got too used to the cold slab weight of it. Absence of light has turned you into a wafer of veins a leafshadow. One skipping day a child will come and kick away the […]