Tagore Variations 6 — Blackbird Archive

← v10n1, Spring 2011

keep your hat on: what I’ve made of my life

forks through sage near the salvage

yard’s pile of old summers. Later, if you

pour a glass of wine, my small flame

fed in winter will go slowly through the red.

Let my last offer be like a nowhere turtle

mortality nature time

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