NOTES FOR MY BODY DOUBLE
Table of Contents
Plenitude 3
On Being Asked Who the You Is in My Poems 5
Questions for Godzilla 6
The Invisible Man Looks into a Mirror 7
Beyond Repair 8
Minus 9
History 10
Psalm in Rain 11
Romance 13
Negation 14
At Night, in November, Trying Not to Think of Asphodel 15
The Naked 16
Daydreaming of Ghosts 17
The God of Neglect, Overheard 18
From the Black Lagoon 20
How It Won’t Be 22
Early in a New Year 23
Veneration 24
Apologia 25
After Hearing of Your Separation, I Turn on the Radio 27
Resignation 29
The Cartoonist in Hell 30
My Philosophy of Other Lives 31
Donald Duck’s Lament 32
Popular Romance 33
These Arms of Mine 35
Such as Myself 36
Poem for the National Hobo Association Poetry Contest 37
Notes for My Body Double 38
Questions for Silence 40
For a Woman’s Back 41
Ode 42
Perfume 43
Erasure 45
Praise 47
Poem in which I Seek Consolation in the Etymology of a Word 48
Hunger 49
The Numbers Are Not In 50
Love Poem 52
Water 54
Ptolemaic Sunset 55
Lullaby 56
Garden 57
3 comments:
Ah, it'll happen, and when it does, I'll be a-drownin' in Paul Guest poems again, right down there with the perfumed octopus to the tune of a Donald Duck lullaby. Something like that. Yippee. I'm impatient in all cases, but in this case, I'm sure I'm not the only one who says, "Curses. Drats. Someone slap the proper cover and design on this perfection already and send those words on their way!"
:)
It's neither little nor
meaningless, Paul.
But is full of hope.
You probably loathe Coldplay--seems they're as anathema to love as Aha or Abba (not sure why 2 A bands popped into my head, ha ha) but I love them anyway. Reading your table of contents made me think of that song, their first real hit, "Yellow."
Look at the stars.
Look how they shine for you
and everything you do.
Yeah, they were all yellow.
I asked another blogger if in a previous life he'd been an angel or a firefly. What about you, Paul? You see so full of light.
Paul,
What happened to the poem about the horse everyone had given up on save for the wily owner and the down-on-his-luck jockey?
By the way, I hope you're using a right powerful server these days because I just figured out how to build a hotlink to your site into my blog front page (still can't get the blue font, though), so you'll be receiving scores of visitors (sans scores) from my site (i.e., the site's three participants).
We like your stuff, kid. And I'm not saying that just because Betsy told me about your site!
-cK
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