Timothy Kercher
Modernism
Your death has abstracted
my life. Flatness has
entered in a dark square
window. The color shift
is only shadow. The value
of a light is bent by cubes.
Your death seen from
an airplane is a series of
clouds, not shape
and color on canvas,
but pure negative space.
Bio
Timothy Kercher lived abroad from 2006 to 2012–four years in the country of Georgia and two in Ukraine–and has now moved back to his home in Dolores, Colorado. He continues to translate contemporary poetry from the Republic of Georgia. He is a high school English teacher and has worked in five countries–Mongolia, Mexico, and Bosnia being the others. His essays, poems, and translations have appeared a number of recent literary publications, including Music & Literature, Crazyhorse, Versal, Plume, upstreet, and others.