Michael Rothenberg is a poet, songwriter, and editor of Big Bridge, www.bigbridge.org, an online literary magazine. His books of poetry include Nightmare Of The Violins (Twowindows Press, CA, 1986); Favorite Songs (Big Bridge Press, CA, 1990); The Paris Journals (Fish Drum, Inc, 2000); Monk Daddy (Blue Press, 2003); Grown Up Cuba (IL Bagatto Press, Amsterdam, 2003); and Unhurried Vision (La Alameda/University of New Mexico Press, 2003). In 2000, Rothenberg's novel Punk Rockwell is published by Tropical Press.
I should be sleeping
Squirrel taps the fence
calls for more sunflower seeds
Dizzie Gillespie and Joan of Arc wing
through invisible curtains
...exhale on fall, puff and click
Break and bleed
Asphalt in the coffee cup
Between huge blanket of black clouds
and ragged graymouth of cityscape
Eye of green morning light
Wind raking bay (thunder hum) thrashing voice
of branches & leaves
Worlds pass
More worlds
Pause