She’s a city-dwelling, sagely bearded
mountain man,
a libidinous old dame dressed in evening wear. Her eyes are hooded,
her bald head so imposing it brings to mind not one but all three domes
of the Sacré-Coeur.
Into this zone of mirth Our mistress of endings sends the world spinning out of orbit.
Jan Herman was born in Brooklyn, in 1942, before it was hip. Now he lives in Manhattan, where it used to be hip. He writes the blog «Straight Up» at artsjournal.com, and is the author of «Fourteen Deformed Sonnet» (Engstler, 2017), «The Z Collection» (Moloko Print 2018), «A Pair of Sonnets» (Cold Turkey Press, 2020), «The Way the Lines Break» (Phantom Outlaw Editions, 2020), «Your Obituary Is Waiting» (Moloko Print, 2020).