Christian Anton Gerard
Wilmot Here, Collect For Stella
I have burnt up shadows staring into myself.
Still I cannot see. You have shown me this and so
has the Berlin Orcherstra; their rendering
Pachelbel’s Canon in D. What a fucker, Pachelbel.
Did you know people are married to that
song? But really, probably, he wrote it for his God,
which brings me to this love you say you have.
If I see one thing it is that. Your love. I would ask
what it’s like to be an Adagio, but
you would kick your heels together and I would know
I looked at a vessel filled with Aurora Borealis
becoming more and more and words would do nothing.
If you kick the pocket trumpet someone left
on the road’s edge, I might remember
how it feels to play.
Christian Anton Gerard’s first book Wilmot Here, Collect For Stella is forthcoming from WordTech Communications in 2014. He’s the recipient of Pushcart Prize nominations, scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and an Academy of American Poets
Prize. His recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Redivider, Pank, Orion, Smartish Pace, B-O-D-Y, Apt, The Rumpus, and The Journal. Gerard lives in Knoxville with his wife, Lucy, where he’s editor of Grist: The Journal for Writers, the Nathalia Wright Research Assistant for Early Modern Studies and an English Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tennessee.
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I have burnt up shadows staring into myself.
Still I cannot see. You have shown me this and so
has the Berlin Orcherstra; their rendering
Pachelbel’s Canon in D. What a fucker, Pachelbel.
Did you know people are married to that
song? But really, probably, he wrote it for his God,
which brings me to this love you say you have.
If I see one thing it is that. Your love. I would ask
what it’s like to be an Adagio, but
you would kick your heels together and I would know
I looked at a vessel filled with Aurora Borealis
becoming more and more and words would do nothing.
If you kick the pocket trumpet someone left
on the road’s edge, I might remember
how it feels to play.
Christian Anton Gerard’s first book Wilmot Here, Collect For Stella is forthcoming from WordTech Communications in 2014. He’s the recipient of Pushcart Prize nominations, scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and an Academy of American Poets
Prize. His recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Redivider, Pank, Orion, Smartish Pace, B-O-D-Y, Apt, The Rumpus, and The Journal. Gerard lives in Knoxville with his wife, Lucy, where he’s editor of Grist: The Journal for Writers, the Nathalia Wright Research Assistant for Early Modern Studies and an English Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tennessee.
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