Mike James

Ted Berrigan’s Sonnet I, Erased

      sleeping hands

                                    which play

        for warmth

still

      among

            sleeping

                                  fragments

Ted Berrigan’s Sonnet II, Erased

  

              hello

     books

     the day is bright

 feminine

         the sun      up

                          late to work

                                        I should know better

Mike James makes his home outside Nashville, Tennessee and has published widely. His many poetry collections include: Red Dirt Souvenir Shop (Analog Submissions), Journeyman’s Suitcase (Luchador), Parades (Alien Buddha), Jumping Drawbridges in Technicolor (Blue Horse), First-Hand Accounts from Made-Up Places (Stubborn Mule), Crows in the Jukebox (Bottom Dog), My Favorite Houseguest (FutureCycle), and Peddler’s Blues (Main Street Rag.) He served as an associate editor of The Kentucky Review and currently serves as an associate editor of Unbroken.