He is saving heredity for himself. For levitation and its hillocks like a wobbly bridge from one apartment to the next. Curious as to the wind and its fingertips. After lunch they read play cards. In Uncle Vanya the hours pass unseen and funnily enough one learns to skate in War and Peace.

JS Venit was born in New York and emigrated to Belgium in 1980 where he lives and works. His poems have been published in Partisan Review, The American Poetry Review, Literary Imagination, New Grub Street and The Little Magazine. This is Mr. Venit's nineteenth collection of poems.