Description
Epoch
by Paul Fauteux
$13.99, paper
978-1-63534-606-0
2018
Paul Fauteux has published poetry in journals including Anima Magazine, Third Point Press, Ampersand, and others, in addition to contributing book recommendations to The Lit Pub. “The Best Way to Drink Tea” is out from Plan B Press, and his manuscript for “How to Un-do Things” was a semi-finalist in the 11th Annual Slope Editions Book Prize. He lives in Virginia, where he teaches high school English full-time. Follow him on Twitter @fauteupb.
Bernie –
from Epoch:
Thirty
You know,
the bubbling up sensation—
being thirty and holding
a washcloth—
remembering that as a child,
the cloth must have been super-
cloth: a sub-maranian
towel with super
duck-like properties,
but you are in a body now
like a consignment dresser—
re-tightening drawer knobs
and wondering whether
to re-finish or paint over.
You’ll pry the lid
off an old paint can,
and find, inside,
an apricot.
-originally published in After the Pause