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2012
This year I will
shed an adolescent
off my ample waist,
organize my digital imagery
into dazzling pigeon-holes
of iconography, keep my latest
beard more than two months,
hoping my wife’s embraces
will return of their own free will,
finally make it to the zoo in order
to discover those elusive pieces
of the puzzle others overlooked,
add more lighthouses to my album,
scratch off that lotto number that will
provide those windfall funds necessary
to erect a dock for my ship to come into,
and anxiously send out my whelped poetics
into the literary chasm of Chapbookland,
pasting paper wings on each word,
and kissing each lingual forehead
before its journey.
Glenn Buttkus
January 2012
Listed as #6 over on dVerse Poets
Would you like to hear the author read this poem to you?
Sounds like a good idea.
ReplyDeleteGreat goals, Glenn! I'd say if you accomplish even half of them your year would be a great success. LOL.
ReplyDeletejust shaved about 3/4 inch off my beard from having let it go all winter...i would like to think my wife misses it...smiles...enjoy skimming that chasm as well...putting my own together as well...keep sCraTcHing that lotto ticket, you never know..smiles
ReplyDeleteha nice...loved the reading.. great rhythm in your poem glenn and i like your goals..smiles
ReplyDeleteNice goals...I wish you the best of luck in sailing out your journey.
ReplyDeleteHappy weekend ~
Good luck! I, likewise, need to shed an adolescent and could certainly stand to win a lotto.
ReplyDeleteBest,
Cort
Wonderful reading! Love the language, beautifully entwined to form a list of dreams similar to my own (with the exception of the beard)...Fantastic!
ReplyDeleteResolutions in poetry, beautiful.
ReplyDelete"and anxiously send out my whelped poetics
ReplyDeleteinto the literary chasm of Chapbookland,"
ha, i like that... truer words have never been spoken. i shaved off my my beard for the first time in a few years, amazing, i forgot what my face looked like. enjoyed your poem very much
Best of luck with the chapbook submissions, Glenn...it's only a matter of time...
ReplyDeleteWonderful! I wish you the best of luck in realizing your list.
ReplyDeletePaul
Really good one!!
ReplyDeleteI'm not going to let my beard go longer than 3 months!
Hope you get those embraces back!
And I don't know what the heck this means...
dazzling pigeon-holes
of iconography
But I love it!!!
xoxo
A lot of honest, straightforward talk here that strikes me as very authentic and real. Vert tight and well done.
ReplyDeletei loved pasting paper wings on each word. great image.
ReplyDeletebumble bee
I LOVE "lingual forehead." That is awesome!
ReplyDelete~Shawna
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