Welcome to “Poetry at The Arts Fuse.” A new poem every Thursday

A Study of Night

This bed tastes of

Night walkers

And drinkers

Shoes in hand

Walking in rain

Big drips splash

Narrow sidewalks

The job of the dark is to do what can’t be done in the light

Nights loosens limbs

Night loosens gold

Gowns off

Shoulders

In the Nightbird cafe

Owls

Moonflowers

Chunky beetle

Under the streetlight

Night pilots

Pools of gathered and scattered light

Below hushed cabin

Pools of light

Watching in the dark

True crime

In the mid-90s, Brenda Coultas moved to New York City to work as staff at the Poetry Project.   Coultas’ more recent works are both from Wesleyan University Press and include The Tatters (2014), an elegy to print, and The Writing of an Hour, an ars poetica (2022).  Her next reading is in the NY Poets series at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC on February 17th.

Note: Hey poets! We seek submissions of excellent poetry from across the length and breadth of contemporary poetics. See submission guidelines here. The arbiter of the feature is the magazine’s poetry editor, John Mulrooney.

— Arts Fuse editor Bill Marx