The Warnings in a Mad Dog's Eyes.
The Warnings in a Mad Dog's Eyes
for Sascha Feinstein
our hero smacked those liverlips and stared, took the
blues dare
imperiously for there were no bitch eyes so rabid--so
strangely
stridently beautiful that deserved to go unchallenged
glassy umber whirls like silt-stirred waters flecked with red
set in veiny jaundiced yellows
arrogant and statesmanly in his copasetic pose-jazzman
by proxy
he would not look too deeply, fear of music kept his gaze
askim on their surface where he drifted above that
marblelike world enwombed by a dreadful though
speakable lust
all war and jizz and befuzzed
and so he cast his eyes askew, pretending to seize-and-size
betrayed only by a certain shallowness of breath
and the frosting over of his well-oiled and educated
blackness
what he almost peeped was the torrential agony of a
shewolf alone
tending her breed, the bitter tender rendings of toothand-claw
although he heard that prolonged howling--half wind,
half quake--
felt it lance his wrist, shiv into his fine southern marrow
(what he did not deign observe in those fierce orbs rolling
her three heads each with four eyes, two set correct-the
one
in the back of her heads, and those solitary winkers
in between
whoa! he denied his ears!
although they arrived in time to give good listen
and so
he saw himself slip comfortably into that rude os, devoured-a
shredded soul, wordless, paralyzed--a mactation)
he loathed those low moanings, heard too late even as
he understood what it was of her that had inhabited him
what he almost saw in her pain might have saved him
Wanda Coleman's Black Sparrow books (David R. Godline, Publisher, Inc.) include Bathwater Wine, winner of the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, presented by the Academy of American Poets The Academy of American Poets is the preeminent organization in the United States dedicated to the art of poetry. History The academy was created in 1934 in New York City by Mrs. ; Mambo Hips & Make Believe (a novel), and Mercurochrome: New Poems New Poems is a collection of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke. He began collecting the poems in 1906, published New Poems in 1907, and in the following year published a second volume of additional poems. , bronze-medal finalist in the National Book Awards 2001. Her new books are Ostinato ostinato: see ground bass. Vamps, Pitt Poetry Series The Pitt Poetry Series, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA since 1968, is one of the largest and best known lists of contemporary American poetry. selection 2003-2004, and Wanda Coleman's Greatest Hits 1966-2004 (Pudding pudding. Early writers on cookery class puddings and dumplings together. The earliest puddings were boiled in a bag or cloth. Later they were placed in a buttered bowl, covered with a cloth, and steamed. The baked or chilled puddings evolved even later. House P). She is featured in L.A. Now, a documentary by Philip Rodriquez, PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, , 2004. THE RIOT INSIDE ME: More Trials & Tremors Tremors Definition Tremor is an unintentional (involuntary), rhythmical alternating movement that may affect the muscles of any part of the body. , Vol. 2 of her literary response to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. (Native in a Strange Land) will be published by Godine in 2005. |
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