His photograph on the back cover
Or as we say the dust jacket
The space around him filled with praise
The spine rigid
We are happy to put a face to a name
To watch it age volume to volume
To come to resemble the volumes
The way as we say a master does his dog
© 2006 Barry Seiler
has published four books of poems: Frozen Falls, The Waters of Forgetting, Retaining Wall, and Black Leaf. "Dust Jacket," "Window," and "Pincushion" are part of "Flotsam," a sequence of about thirty poems. He divides his time between urban northern New Jersey and rural upstate New York.
