27 MAY 07
Dear Bloggers,
Our Poet Laureate, the fabulous Amy King, has a new book out.
Sample its brilliance at Verse Daily or below (because there is a typo at Verse Daily) and get the book here.
ps to the world: Even if you're not a blogger, if you feel unrepresented by the current Poet Laureate of your country and/or state or province, you can think of Amy King as your personal poet laureate. And everyone is free to buy the new book, I'm The Man Who Loves You, while supply lasts.
A Ghost Is Born
Hissing news opens for ensuing
cow spotted and I get it
from the colder coffee leaves
browns and blacks, I get it
from my sins just to get what I like
the looks of as in a dedication
of hatchets to all things wooden.
One feature of the door was
a well-oiled hinge beaten to a creak
by husbandry's action that carries
us across a locking leaf, elapsing
me into me into I unto thee,
thyself or not. Trust us not
to torture our prisoners
and other non-methods
of the train that relocates
flesh pounds on steam
where another soldier stayed
beneath his ruby-red grief.
Peasant toads alert the roadside
reeds, then underside words wind-
whistle leap frog games, selfsame
to surely topple. Parked hybrids
of the world unite
the value of a heart upon
a flapping flea's breath
guaranteed pre-death,
the most real and alive
perfect engine in brief.
In the tulip of sleep, tulip or street,
we worried without far to part.
--Amy King
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