Kasper, if they don't publish this they're crazy. Good work.
jd
On 4/6/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I've never submitted a piece of writing to any magazine before, but a
> few days ago in the wee hours of the night I got some sort of sudden
> burst to try it. I went over to Fuselit -- the journal has a
> prompt-word for each issue -- then wrote & submitted the following
> poem probably within 10 minutes. come to think of it, I probably
> should have workshopped it here before sending it off, but there you
> go. I like it.
>
> *gull*
>
> offal & foam for a mind,
> a hurtler above woos
> just about every current.
>
> buck-naked with a badly tuned chisel
> for a mouth, this swan-clean thief
> knows food when he sees it,
> knows the agony of wind trying to smack him
> & failing; that's his raucous laugh,
> more malicious than a hyena's croak¯
> clearer than crystal.
> that's his fuck-you swerve.
>
> he'd be comical if he wasn't magnificent,
> he'd be magnificent with a meaner step¯
> I've watched geese with more terror.
> a gull can't eel a plunging neck in attack,
> but he's something more:
>
> Poseidon's veering jester,
> hatching his plans
> from a hotdog's gizzard.
>
> KS
>
--
Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
[sharpsand.net]
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