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Poetry, Spring 2004   [Print article] [E-mail to a friend]
 
Forest Neurotica
by Catherine Bowman
 
Slow drag—

Slow drag—

 

forest——otica

 

A camera embedded in the eye
of a butterfly’s hind wing captures
gilded swans choking on cream.
I can’t see the trees for the ugly irises.
Like a honey thief flying at ground level,
I gorge on the secret source of a runaway
brook I have tied to a string. Night in nothing
but a sheer blue blindfold idles down
the hoof track. Those bitch reins. I’m a floating dock
on a shame lake. Me and the Highway Man,
two insomniacs under our Victrola tent.
The sky, a lap dance of stars. The constellations:
a gown for a green wife on all fours. A hangbird
on a branch sips from the acorn’s bitter cup and trills:
love-laughs-at-locksmiths love-laughs-at-locksmiths

 


Copyright © Catherine Bowman
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Poetry & Fiction
Issue #93
Vol. 30/1
ISBN: 0933277407
Price: $10.95 04/15/2004
 
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