Regret
Gluttony
Faith Farm
Host
Invitation
Could easily be
that you could never easily be
forgotten, though if you were, if
you could be, I still might
never have caught, might never catch
another life in my hands.
My chest is the wood
the woodpecker
pecked until the wood-
pecker no longer pecked.
The last prophet,
after receiving
word of the end,
planted rows of seed
in all our yards
day and night, for days.
There is a god
for everyone.
I auditioned for the role
of myself. I was
awake and I was there,
I woke and I wasn’t.
Come, come
to my country.
Watch me
disappear.
I want you
to see where
we aren’t.
Tara Skurtu is a two-time U.S. Fulbright grantee and recipient of two Academy of American Poets prizes and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry. She is the author of The Amoeba Game. Tara is working on her forthcoming poetry collection Faith Farm and a collection of essays, Don’t Ask Me Why I Live Here.
