Craig Morgan Teicher
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There must be soft words
for an evening like this, when the breeze
caresses like gentle fingertips
all over. I don’t know
...
Inaudible voice, silent voice,
voice in my head, voice of my head.
speaker of my thoughts, speaker
of thoughts I do not think but hear
...
In my twenty-ninth year, and in the two-
thousand and ninth since the birth of Christ,
I was laid off from my job. I worked
as a book reviews editor and news
...
It's not the idea of collective improvisation I like,
not the show of instrumental virtuosity,
not the hipster life. And jazz isn't my history.
No, when the tune is really going, when horns spike,
...
If it were true it would make more sense. It must
not be true. It makes too much sense. The truth
makes no sense. Too true. It's too good to be true.
It makes no sense, it must be true. Or must not.
...
that minute subdivision of time
during which the full consequence
flickers, just before the door clicks
shut but just after you could have
...
As if time were a cure. As if all things
pass, this too shall pass were a cure
for time, the time it takes, time enough,
...
I feel like Emily Dickinson did,
running her pale finger over each blade of grass,
then caressing each root in the depths of
the earth's primeval dirt,
...
Craig Morgan Teicher Biography
Craig Morgan Teicher is a poet, critic, and freelance writer. His first book of poems, Brenda Is In The Room And Other Poems, was chosen by Paul Hoover as winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry and was published by the Center for Literary Publishing. His collection of short stories and fables, called Cradle Book, was published in spring 2010 by BOA Editions Ltd. His next book, To Keep Love Blurry: Poems, will be published by BOA in September 2012. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many publications, including The New Yorker, The Nation, The Best American Poetry 2009, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, A Public Space, Jubilat, Seneca Review, Forklift Ohio, Octopus, La Petit Zine, Fairy Tale Review, Verse, and Colorado Review. His reviews of poetry and fiction, and profiles of poets, appear widely in places like NPR.org, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Poets & Writers, Poets.org, Time Out New York, Boston Review and Bookforum. He is Director of Digital Operations and Poetry Reviews Editor of Publishers Weekly, a poetry editor of The Literary Review, a contributing editor of Pleiades, and a Vice President of the National Book Critics Circle. He also teaches at The New School and New York University and lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and children.)
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Another Poem On My Daughter’s Birthday
There must be soft words
for an evening like this, when the breeze
caresses like gentle fingertips
all over. I don’t know
how not to write darkly and sad.
But it’s two years today since
my little girl was born, cut safely
from the noose.
We meant nothing but hope;
how near death is to that.
Only children, only some children,
get to run free from these snags. She
was born! She lived and she grows
like joy spreading from the syllables
of songs. She reminds me of now
and now and now.
I must learn
to have been so lucky.
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