wendy chin-tanner
He speaks to me
as if to a stranger,
thanking me for coming.
The monks are chanting
and I nod
repetitively,
unhearing
like the drinking bird perched
on the edge of his glass,
not a real bird,
just a pair of bulbs
joined by a reed-thin tube
bobbing rhythmically
that cartoon head,
that motion nothing
but a function
of the pressure within.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
wendy chin-tanner - wake
wendy chin-tanner’s
poetry has appeared in such journals as The Saint Ann’s Review and The May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge. She teaches sociology at Cambridge University, UK and is co-founder of A Wave Blue World, an independent comics and graphic novel publishing company with her husband, graphic novelist Tyler Chin-Tanner. They live in London and New York with their daughter Madeleine.
