Samuel Amadon / Dorothea Lasky

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ADVICE FOR YOUNG COUPLES - Samuel Amadon

Pass-Pass, or All My Pulses

Let us acknowledge there is an audience
or that the passage being read a bird

taps on a model home in Northern California
has caught hold of the first three rows of

warranting a lecture with their little bags
of looking forward from who they were

here to be onto that portion of dedicated
reminiscence they expected to include

the story of a rug delayed its fragility partly
by a pair of clotheslines, but more by chairs

where who could have a delicate thought
after hours of those around us think this

vibration would be better worded tuning
as we each have an inch of knee busying

itself closer to those changes in an attitude
that becomes more collective the less it is

accepted. Much like an unfortunate sort
of speaker. He has left his something to

happen at home, where he will carry back
what he was trying to accomplish being

too trying for an audience less aware of
what they came for than the way in which

was partnered an answer to their question
of had they even come for anything at all.


Samuel Amadon was born in Hartford. He has received fellowships and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Columbia University’s MFA program and the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg. His poems and reviews have appeared or will appear in American Letters & Commentary, American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Borderlands, the Canary, Forklift, Ohio, Fourteen Hills, La Petite Zine, LIT, Massachusetts Review, mot juste, New England Review, No Tell Motel, Notre Dame Review, Octopus, Painted Bride Quarterly, Typo, Unpleasant Event Schedule, Verse, Washington Square, and the Western Humanities Review. He lives in New York, where he co-curates the FREQUENCY series with Shafer Hall.


ART - Dorothea Lasky

Art
There is goodness in the world
Little boy named Bill, birthday June 9th,
Who has a smile like my father’s
And it is Matt who wants to marry me and there is goodness
Like the sun and the sound of children
Even evil children are good in their voices
And the thought of beauty is something
That will always bring me back
Because beauty stitches and love regards
And Justin, age 7, made me a charcoal drawing
Of an ice-cream monster and said “Where’s Dottie?”
So he could give it to me and I would hang it up
Needing is good you see
You know needing is good
It is good to need each other
It is good to love and I do
I do love


Dorothea Lasky is originally from St. Louis and currently lives in Boston, where she is pursuing her Ed.M from Harvard University. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Lungfull!, Crowd, 6x6, and Phoebe, among others. Her chapbook, Alphabets and Portraits, was published in 2005 from Anchorite Press.

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