I want to write an elegy to the edge of shade in Spanish I almost understand, strange trills and clucks of tongue; a sestina for the repeating ellipses of branches blown into dance; a mambo ballad that’s been tuning its chords in twitches of fingers that don’t pluck a note but know their […]
Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. –Matthew 23:24. Sudden as the swoop of a swallow that lifts from grass at once: it comes, flash of white under-feathers in sun. You have to follow its path, watch the landing and […]
The ladder in his throat: Rung-less, greased. His voice— Now unformed whimper— Festers in his ears. He wanders In a fog that stinks with wound- Wort and wonders how long His body will last when he lies Down in the peat. Will he Decay once for each of them Or become bones […]
Pimp-Daddy, Blow Me, and D-Z 4-ever are the only legible phrases. Other cut-marks on the squat trunk are hieroglyphs: dark bands of hearts, snowflakes, arrowtips. To be pocked like this. To stand in a corner with shallow roots, one deep tap; to take the terror-etchings, the fleeting love-wounds onto skin and hold […]
Dear Search Committee, Having been footnoted from here to McNeese State, I proffer my CV. For years I edited the Journal of Diacritical Uncertainty and know my regression curves and data collection techniques. I once believed— way back, before I discovered Heisenberg, fractals, Chaos Theory, when I was a boy with a talent for […]
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, a teaching fellow in the MFA writing program at Columbia University on his writing time
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, a teaching fellow in the MFA writing program at Columbia University on Oakland Work Crew
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, a teaching fellow in the MFA writing program at Columbia University on a poem he wishes he’d written