Tom Healy
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Tom Healy’s first book, What the Right Hand Knows, was a finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. His poems and art criticism have appeared in The Paris Review, Yale Review, Salmagundi, Tin House, BOMB and other journals and anthologies. Healy studied at Harvard and Columbia and teaches at the Pratt Institute and the Robert Frost Place. His Animal Spirits was published in 2013.
“You Two?”
We offer in evidence
our grocery list—
its crabbed scribbled
archeology of hunger
shorthand reckoning
of how we’ve settled
arguments
whether the week
augured skim milk
or vodka
cantaloupe or ice cream
little proclamations
smudged on the back
of an envelope
his marks and mine
a currency
the exchange of whim
and sustenance
an account not just
of comfort and ordinary
cravings but how
we’ve construed
the necessities
of rescue and surrender.
Links
- Writer’s website
- “The Organization of Pain and Joy,” Review of What the Right Hand Knows by Zachary Pace. The Rumpus. October 2009.
Media
Reading with Jericho Brown | March 15, 2011