Pleased if slightly disconcerted to see that “The Beautiful Animal,” a twenty-three-year-old poem of mine about the possibilities and perils of new love, is the Poetry Foundation’s “Audio Poem of the Day” for Valentine’s Day. You can click on that link to listen, or you can hear that same recording while watching Theresa Liu‘s minimalist but evocative video version of the poem — which I just discovered today — here on Vimeo.

You can read the plain ole text version here.