Jason Barry
Portrait d'un homme
after Glyn Maxwell
Arms round myself waiting
for you in the late snow,
the park almost empty—
taxis, traffic lights, a dive.
The smell of worn vinyl
in the corner. Someone’s half-
drunk coffee. Still warm,
still waiting.
Jason Barry holds graduate degrees from Boston University and the University of Oxford. His poems, translations, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Barrow Street, Literary Matters, The Cortland Review, Subtropics, The Adroit Journal, Poetry Ireland Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. His debut chapbook, Fossil & Wing (Dos Madres Press), won the 2023 Wil Mills Award at the West Chester University Poetry Center. He has been offered artist scholarships and grants from Poetry by the Sea, Boston University, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
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after Glyn Maxwell
Arms round myself waiting
for you in the late snow,
the park almost empty—
taxis, traffic lights, a dive.
The smell of worn vinyl
in the corner. Someone’s half-
drunk coffee. Still warm,
still waiting.
Jason Barry holds graduate degrees from Boston University and the University of Oxford. His poems, translations, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Barrow Street, Literary Matters, The Cortland Review, Subtropics, The Adroit Journal, Poetry Ireland Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. His debut chapbook, Fossil & Wing (Dos Madres Press), won the 2023 Wil Mills Award at the West Chester University Poetry Center. He has been offered artist scholarships and grants from Poetry by the Sea, Boston University, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Return to November 2024 Edition