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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SENRYU: BLIND DATE, by TIMOTHY LIU Recitation by Author Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scrabble tiles spilled Last Line: No one keeping score Subject(s): Language Games | |||
So many doors through which New England disappears. No safety here amid Bed & Breakfast Bibles pilfered from our drawers, Dante's Nineteenth Canto buried in a thrift shop behind the local church -- the feet of Blake's inverted man bursting to flames. Nothing else changes, only flowers rearranged near calendars hung on rusty nails, holy discarded by immaculate maids like tinder for the fire -- the town's off-season stillness akin to that lighthouse etched in stone above our twin beds. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...READING WHITMAN IN A TOILET STALL by TIMOTHY LIU THE MARRIAGE (1) by TIMOTHY LIU |
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