Albert Goldbarth is a two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as the Mark Twain Prize for Humor. His most recent collections include To Be Read in 500 Years and The Kitchen Sink: New and Selection Poems, 1972–2007, both from Graywolf. He is the Adele Davis Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Wichita State University, where he has taught since 1987.
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Sometimes the dominatrix simply squats above
the subservient mouth, and feeds it
like a mother bird. At other times (in other moods)
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