Artwork © Ira Joel Haber

 

As the Rain Streams and Teems Over the Windowpanes

It is time now. All your labors and exploits.
That jar still waiting in that valley. Someone turning
up the volume on that autumn rain. And you just waking up.

They say the spirit of the corn runs ahead of the reapers.
Scanning the search engine of the unconscious. With a firm
handshake and coarse clothing. A life seen in a liver.

You won that free subscription to history. Enjoy it.
Take time off from the unnoticed ink stain in your shirt pocket.
To mix up your dreams from scratch. You’ll never have enough.

Snags in the fabric of memory. Whiffs of brine in the alley.
The words arrive with more assurance now. To look
over our shoulders. Take your lead in this wet waltz.

With our patented comfort guard application, you know,
tomorrow will soon forget yesterday’s concerns.

 

Perry L. Powell lives in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, and spends evenings wishing for impossible things. When they don’t happen, he writes poems and prose and other stuff.

Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, writer, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in the USA and Europe and he has had nine one man shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum,The Albright-Knox Art Gallery & The Allen Memorial Art Museum. Since 2006 His paintings, drawings, photographs and collages have been published in over 300 online and print magazines. He has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Creative Artists Public Service Grant (CAPS) two Pollock-Krasner grants, two Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grants and, in 2010, he received a grant from Artists’ Fellowship Inc. in 2017 & 2018 he received the Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA artist-in-residence grant.