Poem After a Poetry Reading
other title ideas included / Fear and Railing in New York / Getting Railed on a Hammock
This week it was
called A Large Poplar at Dusk
With a Gathering Storm which
is a line from one of my poems
other title ideas included
Fear and Railing in New York
Getting Railed on a Hammock
at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine
Island, Minnesota Ten Things
I’d Rail About You Dr. Strangerail
Railner Maria Railke
Practical English Handbook
Electricity or Magic Electricity or
Electricity is Magic or Electrical
Majesty Distortion Atlas An Agatha
Christie Whodunnit In Poetry Form or
My Heart Will Beat For Years To Come
Chime read a poem in the shape of a
pyramid the shape of a double helix
voice doubled with recordings of voice
Paul read two poems out in the sunlight
with a tree blowing in the wind the
tears his voice brought us
to the edge of silence and Emily
read a poem called Showing Hole in
the corner bare-walled room light
coming in behind the camera
window nailing her shadow
to the wall and after a while it
felt like her shadow was the one
who was reading and shadows
getting railed by her hole to
ours
Kyle Seamus Brosnihan is a Filipino-American poet and playwright. Raised in Nebraska, he now lives in New York. He received his MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College in 2022. His poetry has been published in HAD, Peach Magazine, The Mantle, Interpret Magazine, and elsewhere.
