Fast Talk by Tom Snarsky
Fast Talk
Tom SnarskyI heard
a beautiful bird
while I was loading
the trash into
the back of the truckas I turned
to find the bird
whose song sounded
like nothing I
had ever heardI realized
it was my
zipper against
the metal
of the wheel welloh well
will you sing it again
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This poem appeared in ONE ART: a journal of poetry, 2024.
ABOUT TOM SNARSKY
Tom Snarsky’s most recent book is A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems, published by Animal Heart Press. He is also the author of the chapbooks Threshold (Another New Calligraphy) and Complete Sentences (Broken Sleep Books), as well as the full-length poetry collections Light-Up Swan and Reclaimed Water (both from Ornithopter Press). MOUNTEBANK is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in 2026. He lives in the mountains of northwestern Virginia with his wife Kristi and their cats.
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