Illustrator: Steve Dalachinsky

Poetry | $5
Saddle-stitched. 23 pp, 7 x 10.5 in.
ISBN 1933254033
Publication Date: January 1, 2005

From The Race Poems:

   Life slides from a
       sidelock. A bit falls
       on the asphalt. He walked
   like a blade
   through crowdless streets.
   Through your tassels.
      He had a pinball machine
   under his shirt.

When they ran out of stretchers, they took
the doors off their hinges. He scoops up
bodyparts from the street with a spatula.

      He puts it in a plastic bag.

   Is that my blood or yours?
   Is this the whites of your eyes?

Steve Dalachinsky is the author of In Glorious Black & White (UDP 2005) and contributed collages to The Race Poems (UDP 2004). He lives in New York City.