RUE DE LA VALLEE

You should see the days here the weather is useless gentle rain when the focus should be on irrigation but there is still time to do nothing to sit here and be quietly bitten and that was all you had to tell them that the things we were offered offend the misery of history with us and our own surroundings. Language runs off with all of last week preceding us into the haze like an arabesque. The raddichio are eternal. My horse said it would go faster and dies in a Russian novel under the catalpas beside which they said everything was broken.

JS Venit was born in New York and emigrated to Belgium in 1980 where he lives and works. His poems have been published in Partisan Review, The American Poetry Review, Literary Imagination and the Little Magazine. This is Mr. Venit's thirteenth collection of poems.