Friday, May 4, 2007

the ringmaster's turn

below is a poem dedicated to my *stellar* uw20 students from this past semester:

"untitled"


forceps pluck at my dissolution material
the bloodied beak of a ravished vulture

tears the flesh off my face and therefore
leaves less to tear but black rain that

stinks most foul staining in memoriam the ink-jet cloud

was it cumulonimbus? or: how i learned to love just nimbus.

they do not know that when i sleep
the octopus blooms
her liquid night upon me
and i awake, thinking i am she
with the doctors in my mouth.

1 comment:

W. Hunter Patterson said...

I like the obsure structure reference to Dr.Strangelove.

thanks for teaching a great class and for putting up with my constant talking.