BLOOD
Poetry by Ken Been
a carpenter's pencil
on a sheet of plywood
across
two
saw
horses
the stain picks up the grain nicely
measured twice
BIO: Ken Been’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in numerous journals and anthologies. A sampling includes LIT Magazine, Stone Poetry Quarterly, October Hill Magazine, Arlington Literary Journal, The Headlight Review, Kestrel, Plainsongs, Poetica Magazine, Drunk Monkeys and Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He is from Detroit, which – in a quirk of geography – is north of its border with Canada.