Mark Bibbins

Mark Bibbins Poems

Mark Bibbins Biography

Mark Bibbins is an American poet. He was born in 1968 in Albany, New York and received an MFA from The New School. Bibbins received a Lambda Literary Award for his collection of poems Sky Lounge (Graywolf Press, 2003), and was awarded a 2005 Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.)

The Best Poem Of Mark Bibbins

And You Thought You Were the Only One

Someone waits at my door. Because he is
dead he has time but I have my secrets-

this is what separates us from the dead.
See, I could order take-out or climb down

the fire escape, so it's not as though he
is keeping me from anything I need.

While this may sound like something I made up,
it is not; I have forgotten how to

lie, despite all my capable teachers.
Lies are, in this way, I think, like music

and all is the same without them as with.
The fluid sky retains regret, then bursts.

He is still there, standing in the hall, insisting
he is someone I once knew and wanted,

come laden with gifts he cannot return.
If I open the door he'll flash and fade

like heat lightning behind a bank of clouds
one summer night at the edge of the world.

Mark Bibbins Comments