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FAST LOVE – Paul Genega

on February 16 | in Poetry | by | with No Comments

In afternoon
summerlight
 
you undid
my belt
 
with your
teeth
 
and I
aswoon
 
thought me
trothed
 
Later
that night
 
you were one
of scores
 
lining
the park
 
wall
in the 70’s
 
(as I
snailed
 
past you
looked
 
else-
where)
:

figures
on a frieze
 
piano
etude
 
for one
hand
 
 
Paul Genega is the author of seven chapbooks and six full-length collections of poetry, most recently Sculling on the Lethe from Salmon Poetry in 2018 (www.salmonpoetry.com) and the chapbook Moordener Kill from Finishing Line Press in 2020 (finishinglinepress.com).

Over a thirty-plus year career, his work has appeared in a wide range of literary magazines and journals, including Southwest Review, Poetry, Kansas Quarterly, Stillwater Review, North American Review, The Paterson Literary Review and Narrative Northeast, and has been honored with awards such as The Lucille Medwick Award (New York Quarterly), Charles Angoff Award (The Literary Review) and The “Discovery” / The Nation Prize. Nominated six times for a Pushcart Prize, he is also the recipient of an individual fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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