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  • Your Name
  • Gerald Barrax (bio)

Think how I might have lived forever and never lived to regret there might be someone I would never meet or could have predicted, like a Hester or Lucy, whose name itself would become familiar and beloved, as if I could never have lived without you.

    All day I walk around tasting your unexpected name, a sibilant trochee slides to the tip of my tongue, collects there, flavors I remember from outside, inside your body.

Gerald Barrax

Gerald Barrax was Professor of English, Poet-in-Residence, and Editor of Obsidian at North Carolina State University at Raleigh. He is author of four volumes of poems, Another Kind of Rain, An Audience of One, The Deaths of Animals and Lesser Gods, and Leaning Against the Sun. In July, 1997, From a Person Sitting in Darkness: Selected and New Poems, his fifth volume, was published by the Louisiana State University Press. He has recently retired to West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Copyright © 1997 Charles H. Rowell
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