Denver Butson

Denver Butson has published four books of poetry: triptych (The Commoner Press, 1999), Mechanical Birds (St. Andrews Press, 2001), illegible address (Luquer Street Press, 2004) and the sum of uncountable things (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015). Butson frequently collaborates with musicians, visual artists, filmmakers and actors (including his wife, the actress and activist Rhonda Keyser).

Never Mind

that guests no longer come unannounced

or that the photo album contains pictures

of much younger people than we remember being

never mind that swallows etch Sanskrit

on the wrinkled sky

it's November

and the present is emptying its wine

into our glasses

never mind that we're not touching now

because our shadows are holding hands

in the dark behind our backs

— Denver Butson