Brendan Sherry
The Man You Live with Comes Home Early

Better to be safe, splitting the difference along the grain with sorry's ripsaw


Will any man mind the weather


Who is himself raining? I escape out your window without my shoes


Can we stop this yet, says a voice, say inner, the raindrops fat


On crabapples, starvation rehearsal, hockey on ESPN2


Seen sideways the puck is not in flight but in fall, to meditate on


We have to land somewhere, else the ground


A liar call

Brendan Sherry
Love Such as Does Not Violate Fear

Losing teeth, we wait for the skull to look evil for us


In the perne of funny, evil, funny, losing view of the beloved at each revolution


In pre-med they had a bucketful of brains


We said goodbye to part of our suspicion that thought can't travel


Once there was a thunderstorm above our wooden balcony, hail filled the kitchen cup


You said I'm going to fix a drink


Figure shrinking, PatrĂ³n, rocks, your love of things sky-descended in terms other


Than moral terms