Rooftop Poetry Club - David Hadbawnik

David Hadbawnik

Bio:
David Hadbawnik is a poet and performer currently living with his wife in Buffalo, NY. Recent publications include the books Translations From Creeley (Sardines, 2008), Ovid in Exile (Interbirth, 2007), and SF Spleen (Skanky Possum, 2006); essays in Jacket and Chicago Review; and poems in Damn the Caesars, Little Red Leaves, and Exquisite Corpse. He is the editor and publisher of Habenicht Press and the journal kadar koli. He began studying towards his PhD in poetics at SUNY Buffalo in fall 2008.

Poems:

FOUND POEM

A woman opens a book with nothing inside
Love comes quietly
The gods waver. To reiterate a point, the gods oversee
lost boyhood innocence.

It was a dark, fading night.
There is a curving belly. The cow�s head is away from me
Let the body be.
Delivered into our hands

is a person of rare refinement
It�s the shape of a body in a grove, everything sudden.
Father had a monument
birds storm through his windows

words shipwreck upon ecstasy, yet are
bearded, with clothes that were

A HISTORY OF MADNESS

I stick my nose in my dog
smell through him
the strange emptiness
of flowers�
the rage of those
who over the years
were forced to commit
acts of private function
in common space