Au Courant
Let the wires
make love together
and create
ideas
behind the desk
as nerves
enact
the brain
of our time
desiring
and searching
fingers
and eyes,
hydrozoans
swaying
and swimming
in the great ocean
of our cyber
selves
Biography
David Radavich’s recent poetry collections are America Bound: An Epic for Our Time (2007), Canonicals: Love’s Hours (2009), and Middle‐East Mezze (2011). His plays have been performed across the U.S., including six off‐Off‐Broadway, and in Europe. His latest books are The Countries We Live (2014) and a co-edited volume called Magic Again: Selected Poems on Thomas Wolfe (2016). He has given readings and workshops widely and served as president of the Thomas Wolfe Society and Charlotte Writers’ Club. He currently is president of the North Carolina Poetry Society.
© 2015 David Radavich, used by permission
