2010 Spring Contest - Poetry Winner!

After Louis Zukofsky
by Patrick Cahill

for Brendan

to lift you then
into the swing
insula
sanctorum
the trees in-
vading what-
ever air they
became when you
not two then
looked at one
and told your-
self its name

About the author

Patrick Cahill received a doctorate in History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. While there he completed Whitman’s Photographic Eye, a chapter of which appeared in The Daguerreian Annual. He has published fiction and poetry in TriQuarterly, Reed, and you say. say, among others. Recently, he co-produced “Celebrating 20th Century World Poetry” at SF Mechanics Institute. Patrick and a fellow San Franciscan are launching a literary arts review, Ambush, this spring. He also volunteers in a native plant restoration project in SF to satisfy his gardening needs.