blue skies poetry

  Decked in gold, and not counting. By the cemetery
the transvestites come and go
          with baskets of roses, white roosters in tow.

~ Jan Conn

Jan Conn’s most recent book of poems is Jaguar Rain: the Margaret Mee Poems, (Brick Books, 2006), and Botero’s Beautiful Horses is forthcoming in spring 2009 (Brick Books). She won the inaugural P.K. Page Founder’s Award for Poetry (2007).

Filed under: Jan Conn by akublik Date 8 September, 2008