For the Boy I Wanted, Fifty Years Ago, To Take to the Senior Prom
“This week your throat has refused to swallow / any of your favorites we tempt it with – / Black Bing cherries, Pemaquid oysters, minced papaya.”
Christopher Bursk
Christopher Bursk, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Poetry Award, and recipient of NEA, Guggenheim and Pew fellowships, author of 17 books, most recently Dear Terror, is most importantly a grandfather of six, and, thanks to them, he has 3 imaginary friends, Wobbly, Oliver, and Nobody.