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Threads by Patrick Doud ISBN 1-889960-00-4, paper, perfectbound, 64 pps --$10 (with an introduction by Kenneth Irby) |
THE MAN IN GREEN offers entrance into a world where words open into old mysteries which we pass in the night, often too distracted to notice. The things and persons of this world, suddenly unfamiliar, half shrouded in shadows, murmur of our own complicities, our own responsibilities, for how it is we've come to dwell in this particular forest, and what we must do to hear its name. Eerie, weird, these poems reach into the quotidian to draw forth the dream lurking in its heart. (NOTE: only a few copies left of this first book by a brilliant young American poet.)
Excerpts from The Man In Green
Gacela after Garcia Lorca
I told no one of the poem
combustive behind your cigarette.
I told no one you could've
melted every image but one.
An inebriate fox made a circle
round the golden-blooded hall of your throat
when our kiss and the rain
ended, ache's deft quatrain.
In the the egg's precious ore your touch
built towns of omens.
I drank my sea to find you
the brilliant drowned brooch which means
always. Ward of my impossible door,
our blood racing hard against itself,
the hum of you in my ears,
yours submerged to hear my youth.
And So On And So Forth
for Helen Genevieve Doud
Abandoned barns
chapel the maze, the old
faith silos what
remains to traverse of home, or
the story, code
of difficulty half
recalled, aching
evident
by and despite that
empty half, its forthness
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