“Good poetry is largely about the voice of the poet. In these wry and personable poems, Timons Esaias shows how good of a poet he is. In topics that range from the day-to-day to the sardonically fanciful, he provides pleasures for everyone from the casual poetry reader to the hard core, omnivorous fanatic. Esaias does what all good poets do: he’s continually interesting.”

—Mike James, author of The Year We Let The House Fall Down

Poem from
Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek

All The Important People #2

Much is lost. My age. Who
that woman in the yellow chair is.
If it’s Tuesday that we have hot-dogs
or another day.

Lethe is a word that I remember. I keep
dreaming that a Saint Bernard with
one of those little kegs, brought me
water from Lethe.

I am afraid. That woman is afraid, too.
Questions keep coming, mysteries, threats,
and that is frightening, and so also
is dreaming.

I have only fragments. A bell tower;
the name of a city in what I think is Europe;
all the important people, nameless now,
gathered at my wedding.