Falling Wallendas

By Michael R. Brown

Falling Wallendas was intended to have a single point of view, that of an older man who resists looking back and tries to look ahead in his life. It resulted from a performance piece of the same name and was chosen for the Tia Chucha list by their editorial board. Many of the poems have been published in anthologies and magazines. Most recently, "The Ice Worm" has been included in The Spoken Word Revolution (Naperville, IL:Sourcebooks mediaFusion, 2003), 143-44.