Artwork © Ira Joel Haber

 

Coming to My Terms

Death by walking on the jagged edge
Drunk with the words of your illicit breath
Grabbed by the ankles at each wayward step

The sure-fire arrest, I’m resisting feebly
Chomping at the bit of my abstaining sobriety
Crimes of passion, temptation’s conspiracy

Pounding the pavement with swollen wrists
Can’t bring myself to a vote of no confidence
From here on out I’ll be as the crows fly

To castles in the air, vowed eternal allegiance
Whose good-faith principles I’d gone steady with
But any four chambers would be moved to acquit
Once coveting her smile, their pious bonds I relinquish

 

Taylor Kovach is a transgender poet who lives in Riverview, Michigan. They hold a bachelor’s degree in psychology, with highest honors, from Michigan State University. Self-taught in the medium of the poetic arts that spans more than a decade, this artist keeps their work far from close to the chest.

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.