by Frank Sherlock
from It’s Time
Laughter has song
beyond its point of origin
harmonizing w/ the sounds
of tears A voice from
the dark can be heard
saying a newborn world is
coming Yes we are
clumsy midwives so
OUCH OUCH OUCH &
HAHAHA I will
return to life a bird &
be heard w/o this language
Frank Sherlock is the author of Life Is to Blame for Everything, Space Between These Lines Not Dedicated, Over Here, The City Real & Imagined (w/ CAConrad), and a collaboration with Brett Evans entitled Ready-to-Eat Individual. Poems beyond the page have found their forms in installations/performances/exhibitions, including “Organize Your Own: The Politics & Poetics of Self-Determination.” He is a 2013 Pew Fellow and 2014-15 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia.