Paul Guest is the author of The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, winner of the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize, and Notes for My Body Double, winner of the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His poems appear in Poetry, The Southern Review, Slate, The Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. He lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Other poems by Paul Guest in Verse Daily:
March 24, 2006:   "The Numbers are Not In" " The world is filled with those who want..."
May 12, 2003:  "Apogean" "All this floating is ridiculous, and the stars..."
April 10, 2003:  "The Flesh" "Walking to get medicine / for a pet, I am tempted..."
February 13, 2003:  "The Advent of Zero" "I know that someday you will tire of everything..."
August 15, 2002:  "The Last Words of Alice the Goon" "Understand me now: the light is lace..."