Diego Isaias Hernández Méndez, Convertiendse en Characoteles / Sorcerers Changing into Their Animal Forms (detail), 2013, oil on canvas. Arte Maya Tz’utujil Collection.
Having Forgotten to Put Out Fresh Towels, I Run Naked and Wet to the Bedroom
In the amber glow of early morning
I see the dogwood’s
silhouette
cast upon
the lowered shade.
Rolling and
unrolling the scroll
I don’t know
which
to prefer.
Jason Tandon is the author of four books of poetry, including The Actual World (Black Lawrence Press, 2019), Quality of Life (Black Lawrence, 2013), and Give Over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt (Black Lawrence, 2009), winner of the 2006 St. Lawrence Book Award. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, Barrow Street, Esquire, and elsewhere. He is senior lecturer in the Arts & Sciences Writing Program at Boston University. (updated 8/2019)