From The Antioch Review, Summer 2013, Volume 71, Number 3
Kurt Olsson
You decide
to give up forks.
It isn't much
of a concession.
You prefer spoons
better anyway.
More dependable,
less likely to
disappoint.
Forks you imagine
knocking at your door
late some night
tipsy and wanting
to sing all the old
songs.
Knives,
you gave up
on knives ages go.
Kurt Olsson‘s first book, What Kills What Kills Us, Silverfish Review Press, won the Gerald Cable Book Award. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, FIELD, Poet Lore, Mid-American Review, and Poetry East.
© 2013 The Antioch Review
