
Randall G Horton
WebsiteYears: 2006-2007-2009
Biography
Randall Horton, originally from Birmingham, Alabama, resides in Albany, New York. He has a MFA from Chicago State and a PhD in Creative Writing at SUNY Albany. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Haven.
Poem
a small boy travels with backpack out
past the last subway stop. dark green
shrubbery on the knoll & places backpack
under the sky, just before the moon, a stone’s throw
from his head to dream, but indeed he can
dream a brave new world, new angles
where he not subset to human. but human
in the universe, on the right angle of god
perhaps everywhere else too, dark green
shrubbery moving alongside earth’s rotation
just before the moon. & under the sky the small boy thinks free
with earth, with all things spiritual:
the sea spray the box elder, just before the moon
october’s gentle winds whisper come back home
inhale a new kind of individual but not
really an individual, a human being
under a canopy of falling stars wonderfully
hard to center, a universal free & good.