“Fourth Wall Arpeggio” by A. Van Jordan
Poetry faculty member A. Van Jordan was recently featured in Poetry Magazine. Read an excerpt and find a link to the full text below:
Fourth Wall Arpeggio
Lately, my friends ask me, out of love,
have I written about my mother,
who suffers under the storm of Alzheimer’s disease,
and I tell them, “I don’t write about my family,
never directly, at least.” To write this poem seems so
out of character for me, but it’s not about my mother,
as much as it’s about how, as a son, the disease
measures the changing rituals of family.
And 28 lines—all I’ve provided myself—seems so
anemic. Now, I barely have 18 lines left for a love
Continue reading here: A. Van Jordan | Poetry Magazine
