Sunday, August 18, 2013

Who Needs a Deck of Collage Poems Cards? Me.

And you probably do, too.  My friend Jen Besemer's project is now available to Joe and Jan Public, and the rest of us.  And I think it's very cool.  Check it out here. And find out more about Jen and her always provocative and startling work on her website.  Ok. Go forth and read, and write, and order most excellent card collections, some of them blank so you can add your own two cents and a blue jay feather's worth.


Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Dear Overcoat,



In you I become an old man,
a raven, someone’s
uncertain doom; in you I could carry
the Prince of November’s
one dozen pockets, home

to a pebble, a pen
and a knife,
you stretch me
taller,
you catch the wind,

you are a plowed field
for the first snow to fall,
you the fashion
I’d been
wanting

to hide myself within,
oh overcoat,
realm
of moths and mantle
of fog, the means

to mask my unsculpted
body—I found you in
a secondhand store,
I lost you
in a pile of coats

at a stranger’s
party, or did you melt
into some midnight
closet, where unexplained
breezes

or unseen hands
swing you
on a stern
and clanging
metal hanger?