Poetry: She Looked by John Yamrus

she looked

at
him
and said:

“who
do you
think’s lonelier,
the hawk or the worm?”

you
read that
somewhere, didn’t you?

“yeah,
but it’s pretty, and
it’s something to think about, isn’t it?





John Yamrus’s career spans more than 50 years as a working writer. He has published 35 books (29 volumes of poetry, 2 novels, 3 volumes of non-fiction and a children’s book). He has also had nearly 3,000 poems published in magazines and anthologies around the world. A book of his selected poems was just released in Albania, translated into that language by Fadil Bajraj, who is best known for his translations of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Bukowski, Ginsberg, Pound and others. A number of Yamrus’s books and poems are taught in college and university courses. His most recent book is Selected Poems: The Directors (Concrete Mist Press)

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