“My heart and my flesh sing” by Sean Singer
“My heart and my flesh sing”
Sean SingerFirst, I took off my jacket,
then my shirt, pants,
shoes, underwear, thenmy skin, then my muscles,
then my veins, nerves, cartilage,then I took off my bones.
Finally I stood there
where no one has ever seen me.
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ABOUT SEAN SINGER
Sean Singer is an American poet born in Guadalajara, Mexico. He is the author of Today in the Taxi (Tupelo Press, 2022), which won the 2022 National Jewish Book Award for poetry; Honey & Smoke (Eyewear Publishing, 2015); and Discography (Yale University Press, 2002), which won the a 2003 Norma Farber First Book Award and the 2001 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Singer earned an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in American studies from… (more)
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