5 August 2008 | Vol. 8, No. 2
The Dog of Clarity
Sometimes I feel
like a dog in the sky,
a constellation of mostly not-me.
If you look as someone once did without light and squinting,
paws are bodies
running clumsily away from each other
and from the noise of the beginning.
About the author:
Mark Bilbrey teaches creative writing and composition at the University of Georgia, where he's a doctoral candidate in the English department. His studies focus on early American literature, modern American poetry, and a concept he calls "the poetics of prayer." He earned an MFA from the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop and a BA from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Mark Bilbrey at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 8, No. 2, where "The Dog of Clarity" ran on August 5, 2008. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
