Fourberie
One might wish
to figure out
the measure of the sure,
the doubt.
The pleasure of
an hour’s space.
The privilege of
abode and life.
The manner of
the trick, the flack.
The value of the
month that fled, the
never uttered,
the often meant.
Terese Coe’s poems, translations, and prose appear in well over one hundred journals, including Agenda, Alabama Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Apogee Journal, The Cincinnati Review, The Classical Outlook, Crannog Magazine, Cyphers Magazine, The Hopkins Review, Metamorphoses, The Moth, New American Writing, New Writing Scotland, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Review, The Stinging Fly, The Threepenny Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Warwick Review, Xavier Review and anthologies. Giorno Poetry Systems awarded her poetry grants in 2001 and 2002; her collection Shot Silk was listed for the 2017 Poets Prize. Agenda UK featured her Rilke and Borges translations in their 2007 “A Reconsideration of Rainer Maria Rilke” issue. Links to her work are at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terese_Coe.
