David Koehn
Horse in Field Under Power Lines Quatern
I've been told everything is in transition today
Debbie and Theo unwind family Mietshäusersyndikat in Taiwan today
Kelly’s husband sticks a fork into his second helping of twice baked potatoes today
I placed “Risk” by Rusty atop a stack of other books on the coffee table today
A rot took out a man’s throat with a single bite on TV today
I've been told everything is in transition today
Storm cloud diminishing, optimisms, your death arrives today
Rutabagas, parsnips, deviled eggs, a gun appeared in the mirror today
Had she, bewildered by moonlight and burnt tinder, today
Not tripped upon a whisper, the story unfinished would have dissolved into today.
I've been told everything is in transition today
And just like that, all of you failed to read this again. Today
Where the scent of scallion pancakes rents the air, Deb asks how today’s
Quiet, like a distant field where horses graze without care today
Nests the chaos in the bustling streets of Tainan, I’ll surely face again today.
I've been told everything is in transition today
David Koehn’s third poetry collection, Sur (Omnidawn, 2024), is a Hoffer Award finalist. He recently released several chapbooks: intervals of (Blue Bottle, 2024), an erasure of Doyle’s Sign of the Four, and As a Signal Magnification of the General Miracle (cuckoo grey, 2020), both co-authored with Rebecca Resinski. For Omnidawn, he has long taught “Prosody as a Form of Revision” and “Forms: Breaking the Bowl,” the latter now open for enrollment in Fall 2025 with guest speakers Lisa Rosenberg, Maria Nazos, Maw Shein Win, and Randall Mann. Now a lecturer in Comp and Creative Writing at SJSU, Koehn also has new work forthcoming in Lana Turner, Swing, Thimble, Atlanta Review, and Blood + Honey. More at davidkoehn.com and book distribution info here.