Piotr Gwiazda 

FUCK NATO 

The sky too has borders:
controlled airspaces 
traffic zones 
and no-fly zones. 

You see them or you don’t —
countries and alliances
(FUCK NATO) 
structures of reality. 

Something is being done
to your face/mind. 
Under the meadow 
human remains remain. 

On the disputed island
a white plane  
with no markings 
touches the landing strip.

Untitled

Basquiat’s “Untitled 
1982” has sold  
for $110.5 million  
at Sotheby’s in New York,
says the announcer 
for Bloomberg TV  
at the BP gas station 
on Liberty Avenue. 

An auction record  
for an American artist.

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Piotr Gwiazda is the author of three books of poems: Aspects of Strangers (Moria Books, selected for “Best Books of Poetry in 2015” by Scroll), Messages: Poems & Interview (Pond Road Press, 2012), and Gagarin Street (WWPH, 2005), and two critical studies, US Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979-2012 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and James Merrill and W.H. Auden (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He is also the translator of two volumes by the Polish writer Grzegorz Wróblewski, Zero Visibility (Phoneme Media, 2017) and Kopenhaga (Zephyr Press, 2013). His essays and reviews have appeared in AsymptoteChicago ReviewJacket2, the TLS, and other journals. He teaches in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. For more information about his work, see my website: http://piotrgwiazda.net/.