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Terrance
Hayes
received
a 1999 Whiting Writers Award and the 2000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for
his first book of poems,
Muscular
Music.
His
poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Harvard
Review, The Beliot Poetry Journal, Chelsea, Callaloo,
and River
City,
as well as in several anthologies, including American Poetry: The
Next Generation.
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The
Anagram Poems are adopted from the word game puzzles found in
several syndicated newspapers: 1. End words must be derived from
four or more letters in the title. 2.Words which acquire four
letters by the addition of "s" are not used. 3. Only one
form of a verb is used.
s
a i n t l y
Terrance
Hayes
What
the Bible said. A satin
cassock.
A tail
that
never drags in the dirt. No nasty
acne.
No yellowed armpit stain.
And
no nails
in
the hands & feet. No salt
in
the wound. Just satiny
sanity.
No narrow slit
to
stick the tongue through. No tiny
pin
pecks for eyes. No last
minute
pleas to be added to the list.
© 2001 by Terrance Hayes
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Volume
II Issue I