deodog

1     Inside me is a black-eyed animal
2     Bracing in a small stall. As if a bird
3     Could grow without breaking its shell.
4     As if the clatter of a thousand black
5     Birds whipping in a storm could be held
6     In a shell. Inside me is a huge black
7     Bull balled small enough to fit inside
8     The bead of a nipple ring. I mean to leave
9     A record of my raptures. I was raised
10    By a beautiful man. I loved his grasp of time.
11    My mother shaped my grasp of space.
12    Would you rather spend the rest of eternity
13    With your wild wings bewildering a cage or
14    With your four good feet stuck in a plot of dirt?

Dear Reader, This blog is a little experiment in seeing what would happen if I posted snippets of “close readings” of poems and excerpts from fiction on a semi-regular basis. I have begun by copying the full text of two short papers I wrote as an undergraduate, for the course COMPLIT 121: Poems, Poetry, Worlds. As someone perpetually too embarrassed to review old work, I am rather pleased to find that what I wrote back then is still quite interesting and possibly helpful.

1    Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
2       Susie Asado.
3    Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
4       Susie Asado.
5    Susie Asado which is a told tray sure.
6    A lean on the shoe this means slips slips hers.
7    When the ancient light grey is clean it is yellow, it is a silver seller.
8    This is a please this is a please there are the saids to jelly. These are
          the wets these say the sets to leave a crown to Incy.
9     Incy is short for incubus.
10   A pot. A pot is a beginning of a rare bit of trees. Trees tremble, the
         old vats are in bobbles, bobbles which shade and shove and render clean, render clean must.
11   Drink pups.
12   Drink pups drink pups lease a sash hold, see it shine and a bobolink has pins. It shows a nail.
13   What is a nail. A nail is unison.
14   Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.