A Horse with Sad Eyes

Everyone is talking
about age as disease
and other than the body what is contained?

Terrible affliction,
this living forever.

This everyone about begging
everyone about
more efficient monsters.

Singlehandedly, I saved an entire world.

The nurses run around like daisies,
patients and friends praise me.

I’ve been thinking in numbers again.

Those headaches you offered,
I’ll take my share. And hers, and his, and yours.

I’m all out of surprises, I surrender.

Brian Trimboli has received fellowships from The Catskill Poetry Workshop, Bucknell University, New York University, and Binghamton University, and has been published in Gulf Coast, The Indiana Review, and Puerto del Sol as well as other journals. He is currently a poetry editor for Harpur Palate, and a PhD Candidate at Binghamton University. His chapbook, The Brothers, Perdendo and Perdendosi, was released from No, Dear/Small Anchor Press in fall 2013.