(1960 - / Boston / United States)

poet Nick Flynn

Poems of Nick Flynn

1. Alan Dugan Telling Me I Have A Problem With Time 1/13/2003
2. Amber 1/13/2003
3. Bag Of Mice 1/13/2003
4. Cartoon Physics, Part 1 1/13/2003
5. Embrace Noir 1/13/2003
6. Emptying Town 1/13/2003
7. Statuary 1/13/2003
8. Twenty-Pound Stone 1/13/2003
9. You Asked How (formerly Even Now She Is Turning, Saying Everything I Always Wanted Her to Say) 1/13/2003

Emptying Town

I want to erase your footprints
from my walls. Each pillow
is thick with your reasons. Omens

fill the sidewalk below my window: a woman
in a party hat, clinging
to a tin-foil balloon. Shadows

creep slowly across the tar, someone yells, "Stop!"

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