my nose says 'frost' to the rest of me
a three-crow caw alarm
the old age moon's lousy company
the broken intermolecular bonds in the water the plum twig sips
cutting the mouse tail off the white turnip
he took his blood-blisters into the next world
flybys to the outer planets: dumpster dives for the Son of Man
the extinction of languages right up to this shoo-be-doo-da-day
Saturday morning: negotiating the release of a tree frog
when they caught him, he was knighting sunflowers with a switch
Oh, the Dardanelles of sleeplessness
the soft tread of a Shawnee hunting party: city sirens
making a wish on the star atop her parochial school paper
deep in tinseled thoughts of long ago
I was sitting next to one of those zero sum guys who wouldn't hurt a fly
2 thoughts on “Poetry from Patrick Sweeney”
Very nice! You made me think of Amelia Rosselli’s poetic fragments published in ‘Appunti sparsi e persi’ (‘Scattered and Lost Notes’, don’t think it’s available in English though).
Thank you, Maurizio, I will look for a copy of Rosselli’s work.
-Patrick
Very nice! You made me think of Amelia Rosselli’s poetic fragments published in ‘Appunti sparsi e persi’ (‘Scattered and Lost Notes’, don’t think it’s available in English though).
Thank you, Maurizio, I will look for a copy of Rosselli’s work.
-Patrick