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Sean Nevin Poems
- Heart Of The Tyrant King The carpenter bees leave their ...
- Losing Solomon Things seem to take on a sudden ...
- Hinged Double Sonnet For The L... For ten days now, two...
- Alzheimer's A blizzard, late in the season, arrives with its...
- Solomon's Tool Shed The three pine steps have worn ...
- Montclair Vespers The evening light of suburban New Jersey ...
- The Other Draem In Which He Is...
Sean Nevin teaches creative writing for Arizona State University where he serves as the assistant director of ASU's Young Writer's Program. He is editor of 22 Across: A Review of Young Writers, and his poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Gettysburg Review, Blackbird: an Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, North American Review, Cutthroat, 5AM, JAMA, Hayden's Ferry Review, Runes: A Review of Poetry, and Family Matters: Poems of our Families. His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and his chapbook, A House That Falls, won the 2005 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Prize. Other honors include the Alsop Review poetry prize, an Academy of ... more »
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Heart Of The Tyrant King
The carpenter bees leave their sawdust dunes
heaped on the porch beneath the wood railing
like ancient pyramids returning to sand,
and the damn termites have taken the walls.
Last night I dreamt I was the dead pharaoh,
the tyrant king mummified in his tomb.
A carved history fading from stone tablets
as looters filled satchels with gold. The worms
had already come and gone, picked the skull
clean. My chest was a winter honeycomb,
a bee's papery nest seized by hoarfrost.
While thieves sifted my organ jars for jewels,
I grinned jawbone through the din ...
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