Goad 17
Thomas Fink
"A day without assessment is a month without account
ability." Green house guesses are inane. "About about." My butt.
How the hell
did you flunk out
of the New York
School? Poetry—not
painting. Get all my
quarters & wash my
pants. Pe ople in con
vertibles: I mean, wear a
hat. They'll soon find they
need more tuition revenue. Just
don't crap on a moonbeam.
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Thomas Fink’s fifth book of poetry, Clarity and Other Poems, was published by Marsh Hawk Press in Spring, 2008, and with Maya Diablo Mason, he co-authored Autopsy Turvy (Meritage, 2010). A Different Sense of Power (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2001) is his most recent book of criticism, and in 2007, he and Joseph Lease co-edited “Burning Interiors”: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics. Fink’s paintings hang in various collections.