Three Poems
Eric Burke

Self-Portrait

in the same way one staples small wires
into place:

a man
gravid with the eggs of his life



Memory

the amateur,
patient craftsmanship

of my young, desirable
mother



Factum Brutum?

His head is like a Zen garden:
he likes to rake it -- back and forth --
with a plastic fork.

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