Poetry by Bart Edelman
Inventory
Hammer toe.
Twisted ankle.
Weak knee.
Bum leg.
Dislocated hip.
Fractured finger.
Swollen wrist.
Bad back.
Frozen shoulder.
Strained neck.
Wired jaw.
Black tongue.
Inflamed gum.
Crooked tooth.
Broken nose.
Lazy eye.
Deaf ear.
Oily scalp.
Jumbled brain.
Latest inventory.
Random sample.
More to come.
In good health—
By all measure.
Bart Edelman’s poetry collections include Crossing the Hackensack, Under Damaris’ Dress, The Alphabet of Love, The Gentle Man, The Last Mojito, The Geographer’s Wife, Whistling to Trick the Wind, and This Body Is Never at Rest: New and Selected Poems 1993 – 2023. He has taught at Glendale College, where he edited Eclipse, a literary journal, and, most recently, in the MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. His work has been anthologized in textbooks published by City Lights Books, Etruscan Press, Harcourt Brace, Longman, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, the University of Iowa Press, Wadsworth, and others. He lives in Pasadena, California.
