Paul Hostovsky

All Poems Are About Death

Pronounce it po-um.

With an um inside.

A thoughtful pause.

A caesura. A possum

that got run over,

its esses elided.

Paul Hostovsky's poems have won a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Awards, the FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writer's Almanac, and the Best American Poetry blog. Website: paulhostovsky.com