Here
rarely as intense
feelings do now
take on a
different aura a
certain easeful depth
as if you
sat in a
chair & the
drug took over
“‘what proceeds &
what follows,’ Pound’s
phrase, like a
river, the emptying
sounds of paradise.”
here it is
“There is nothing
to wait for
that isn’t here.”
-Hank Lazer
About the Author
Hank Lazer is the author of 12 books of poetry, most recently Elegies & Vacations and The New Spirit. He is the associate provost of the University of Alabama.
