AUTHOR'S NOTE:

I was reading Tomaž Šalamun some months ago, and this poem and many other unseen poems, were my attempt at reproducing the irreverent poignancy of his work. As you can see, I mostly failed.

BIO:

Jalen Eutsey is a poet and freelance sportswriter from Miami, Florida. He earned a BA from the University of Miami and an MFA in Poetry from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He was a 2018-19 (GBCA) Urban Arts Leadership Fellow. He lives in Baltimore.