Joseph Harrington
Hew
Like people, not all stones
are living: being means
listening to outside light,
when words wait for what
wants to be said in storied
space: a rock might
mean a soul, a blank face
divided by syntax, as light
tries to tell us, feeling nigh,
what dark matter makes it.
Joseph Harrington is the author of Things Come On (an amneoir) (Wesleyan 2011); it was a Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection. He is the author of the chapbooks Goonight Whoever’s Listening (Essay Press 2015), Earth Day Suite (Beard of Bees 2010) and Of Some Sky (Bedouin, forthcoming), as well as the critical work Poetry and the Public (Wesleyan 2002). His creative work has appeared in Bombay Gin, Hotel Amerika, Colorado Review, The Rumpus, 1913: a journal of forms, Atticus Review and Fact-Simile, among others. Harrington is the recipient of a Millay Colony residency and a Fulbright Chair. He teaches at the University of Kansas.
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