Matthew Henriksen
Fucked Up World
Better present than in any future conceived
I brought boxes to pack books in
What can two people make but one bigger loneliness
before falling asleep shoulder to shoulder
in a room of crowded things
the same nameless light hits morning
after merciless morning
A pile driver in the movie
slams mud until a slum apartment collapses
Naples in black and white
Pretend above all to love this thing
this monstrous idea of a room
Forget where to put
what and what to give away
or suggest another corner
worse than the one you know
Matthew Henriksen’s first book, Ordinary Sun, will emerge from Black Ocean in 2011. He is the author of the chapbooks “Another Word” (Double Cross Press) and “Is Holy” (horse less press). Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Fence, Sink Review, So and So Magazine, Alice Blue, Realpoetik and Ink Node. He edits the online journal Typo and lives in yonder hills.