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Shearsman 62 |
Vassilis Zambaras Two
Poems |
How I Was Cured Of Hunting
spied
thrush in thicket
lookingafter its wound,
a sprigof therapeutic
o-
re-
ga-
no in its bleeding
beak.
Separate EntityA multitude
Of solitudes, each
AccumulatingParticular
SingularConcentrates
On what is leftUnsaid
.
Immaterial?
WitnessScores of voices
Interlocking overBedrock in
SeparateCongeries
Of air-Tight alibis
Of the dead.
Vassilis Zambaras was born in Greece, and returned there after twenty-five years in the USA. He teaches at the language school he founded in 1977 in Meligalas, and has published two small volumes of poetry: Sentences (Querencia, 1976) and Aural (Singing Horse, 1984). Some of his poems were included in the anthology How The Net Is Gripped: A Selection of Contemporary American Poetry (Stride, 1992). More recent work can be found in The London Magazine and Poetry Salzburg Review; also online at The Salt River Review, Maverick Magazine, finewords.com, and Tattoo Highway. He has an unpublished third collection of poetry titled The Intricate Evasions of As.
copyright © Vassilis Zambaras, 2005.
