Michael Homolka

Michael Homolka's poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in publications such as Antioch Review, Boulevard, The New Yorker, Parnasus: Poetry in Review, Ploughshares and the Threepenny Review. He grew up in Los Angeles and lives in New York City.

Discipleship

A cold cast of existence : that moment
in art history when one art
breaks from another and life
is forever seen otherwise

A few minutes past some country wall
the deepest green of needles
clunks to the weeds where my mother
wanders on perpetual loop

Idleness versus purpose
destiny versus flitteryness : Isosceles
and not human at all my mother
dabs and my mother daubs
Grass-green

yellow-green green-black : not even
two seconds to say farewell to her children