Arthur Russell
Oh dear, Zev,
fall in love already.
There's an ice floe
for two in Puget Sound,
and all night dancing.
Get your banjo
out of the garbage
and plunk plink under
a grandchild's window.
You've got a few
harbingers yet to go,
a "come and gimme
a kiss" left, in that
cheder bucher mug.
Fall in love, Zev,
You know we'll
come and get you
if you can't get up.
Bio
Arthur Russell won the Brooklyn Poets' Poem of the Year Award in 2015 and was the runner up for the same award in 2021. He won second place in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award for 2021. He is one of the Gang of Six that manages the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry group, the mc of its monthly open mic, co-leader of its weekly workshop and co-editor of its annual journal, the Red Wheelbarrow.