EINE KLEINE NIGHTCRAWLERS

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Another October is here, and with it a new issue of Guernica, the American Empires issue. My poem “Nachtmusik” is swerving around inside those pages, alongside a piece I really love by Jay Heikes. I sometimes say that I wish poems would list their ingredients, like you see on the white placards next to paintings in galleries. So let’s give that a try. 

Danniel Schoonebeek (American, b. 1986).
Nachtmusik (2014). 

Worms, teething, Osip Mandelstam, The Return of the Native, angry emails, Catskill Mountains, subway advertisements, Bela Bartok, American war photography, slang, the Mission on the Bowery, W.S. Merwin, schoolyard songs, Eustacia Vye, gardening the Tristia.