Poem: "The Last Thing, Or Song For When They Take It All Away"
"Shame / is like you’re made / of 10,000 / beautiful doors // and every day / you try to keep them / all / from flying open / at once." — Patrick Rosal
Patrick Rosal is the author of the recently released Brooklyn Antediluvian (Persea Books) and three other full-length books of poetry. He is currently at work on a collection of New and Selected Love Poems and a book of essays. He is associate professor of English at Rutgers University-Camden.
"Shame / is like you’re made / of 10,000 / beautiful doors // and every day / you try to keep them / all / from flying open / at once." — Patrick Rosal
"Shame / is like you’re made / of 10,000 / beautiful doors // and every day / you try to keep them / all / from flying open / at once." — Patrick Rosal