Alex Lemon is the author of Happy: A Memoir and three collections of poetry: Mosquito, Hallelujah Blackout, and Fancy Beasts. A fourth collection is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas, and teaches at TCU.
Poetry
Nov/Dec 2017
Better Get Better
Each night, the suffer-Gleamed stars above Texas crush down & I do Not know how to sayNo thank you, please To the jawing ghosts That show up to gnawFurrows in […]
Poetry
Nov/Dec 2017
This Paradise This This
What I need from thisSlap & tickle is a full Suckle of lies. Glue My lips together with Blow flies. I am not Ashamed at how hot My cravings swing— […]
Poetry
Fall 2013
Maybe You’ll Be Young and Pretty Forever
Afternoon sunlight Hammocks through The rain-laden Lilacs, beautifully— But it's no balm. Daylight carves—humidity Curdles the air—sharp- Edging our shapes, Illumining our despair, The wretched beasts Inside us. I know […]
Poetry
Spring 2008
Patter to Mend
I measure time by how a body sways. —Roethke Through thorns, & a thick & wicked buzzing I sing nectar, a stumble Born of itself & the mothballs in flames […]
Fall 2013
Your Life is The Bed I’m Gonna Lay Down In
Nothing is quite the savor That was promised. No salvage In the rough & tumble but still The darksome bellows down