After the Exile
“The exile of words has begun.”
–Bei Dao
Still they are messengers, gray
like the wall they’re up against,
gray as the night in which they
must travel by necessity, by
starlight,
Corey Mesler
Corey Mesler has published in numerous anthologies and journals including <i>Poetry</i>, <i>Gargoyle</i>, <i>Good Poems American Places</i>, and ,<i>Esquire/Narrative</i>. He has published 8 novels, 4
Oh Heart!
In the tinkling
thinking of
the wind chimes
I hear a song
that places me
before you again,
on my knees, a
knave. In the
thinking reflection
of the window,
steamed with my