Albert Mobilio is a poet and critic. The recipient of a Whiting Award, MacDowell Fellowship, and an Andy Warhol Arts Writers Award, his books of poetry include The Geographics, Me with Animal Towering, Touch Wood, and most recently Same Faces. Games and Stunts, a book of fiction, was published in 2017. He teaches at the New School.

Albert Mobilio’s most recent book of poems, Same Faces, is published by Black Square Editions.

Stand with the others in the fenced-in yard. Shoes drag through gravel and dust rises with each slow step.

Albert Mobilio’s books of poetry include Bendable Siege, The Geographics, and Me with Animal Towering. A volume is forthcoming later this year from Brooklyn Rail/Black Square editions.

A brutal cold had shouldered away any vestige of sunnier days as Mink hunkered down at what he judged to be the river’s edge. Snow so deep, he couldn’t tell. Holding a three-foot length of rusted pipe, a faucetless spigot at one end, he began spearing the base of a snowy crest.

I was alone and sad because of a recent break-up. And, I suppose, I was more than a little desperate. The woman in the apartment next door let a pretty friend from Texas stay in her apartment while she went on a weekend trip—we were introduced in the hallway at our adjacent doors.

It’s too brutal to believe. To suck it down till it stews spoils in my gut.