Jody Azzouni has been writing since he was twelve: Poetry, Fiction, Philosophy. He’s been a professor in the philosophy department at Tufts University since 1986, and lives in Somerville. His most recent book of poetry is Hereafter Landscapes, published with the Poet’s Press.

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Diamond

Your eyes can’t compete; neither
can the stars: light trapped
(its bright cries echoing
face to face). It heirlooms
incarnatedly, outlasts the flat
photograph, the telling anecdote,
touched (over and over again)
by the passing stranger.

Intercourse

The small dark, cozy
like holding hands
that block the light between them.
Surprisingly, this is a good thing.
We pond together; skinny-dip beneath the sheets.
Only the eyes, their pupils expanding like hopes,
draw light and offer it pooled and sweetened,
the dim dispersed by twinned glows.

– Jody Azzouni

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