The Greatest Dog & Pony Show on Earth
"The Light Never Sleeps" painting by JoAnneh Nagler
by Timothy Liu
So this is where love had gotten
us—a land of plenty with one
too many singing bowls
sounding off, as if their brass
had been warped from too much
pounding. There there. Slow it
down, the Old Man said, don’t be
afraid to feel the thing ring out—
it’s not like it’s going to kill you.
Timothy Liu’s latest books of poems are Down Low and Lowdown and Luminous Debris. He lives and works in the Hudson Valley, NY. www.timothyliu.net
JoAnneh Nagler is the author of Stay with Me, Wisconsin (Coyote Point Press), Naked Marriage (Skyhorse Publishing); How to Be an Artist Without Losing Your Mind, Your Shirt, or Your Creative Compass (W.W. Norton); and The Debt-Free Spending Plan (HarperCollins), two of which were Amazon Top-100 titles. Her books have been featured in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, Essence Magazine, Medium.com, etc., as well as many journals, including New Haven Review, The Brussels Review, Persephone, Glimmer Train and more. She is a reader for Ploughshares, and her work has been supported by The Bread Loaf Writers Conference and Stanford University’s Creative Writing Program. www.AnArtistryLife.com.
