Two by Terry Stokes from Boning the Dreamer » kid_A

Posted by beardedlady on May 9, 2002, at 13:19:00

In reply to I like creepy, but haven't read any Terry Stokes (nm), posted by kid_A on May 9, 2002, at 13:06:30

Here are two little poems. If you like him, maybe you'll buy his book.
Making the Poem
& now I am so crazy I cannot
write a line without worrying,
am I fucking it up already?
& this is only the first line,
& I have watched every probing
doctor story on T.V., & I'm right
back where I began, my mother's tomb,
thumping, weeping, wiggling the little
toes of my words.
Terry Stokes
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Masks
The proper pills keep me
from cracking my head in the shower,
& the mess expected therein.
The Chinese child stretches her head
over the booth inThe Great Shanghai.
She does not speak as I would not speak.
I collect the scars of limited travel
on my face, a devil mask for me alone.
I squint from the eyeholes, & welcome
everyone home. Bumbling, foolish, I,
too, watch this shadow of a heart
leap from the landscape to some place
we can only know when we
dive from a dark boat out of love.
Terry Stokes

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