Tagore Variations 1 — Blackbird Archive

← v10n1, Spring 2011

You make my body sing this evening

beside the burnt creosote.

The nighthawks of your hands loosen my throat.

Desert summer is endless—

even here, you pour

me out, making songs. Night steps down

between the pointed stars, never stopping.

Nothing fills. I am never full.

desire nature music

Jeremy Spohr

Jeremy Spohr’s poetry appears or is forthcoming in zaum , Hayden’s Ferry Review , and Fiddlehead , among other journals. His awards include a 2009 Katherince C. Turner prize from the Academy of American Poets. He earned his MFA from Arizona State University, where he taught creative and academic writing. Spohr died in Denver on August 6, 2010. Photo by Mark Haunschild, 2006