42opus
is an online magazine of the literary arts.
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.
Source:
http://42opus.com/v8n2/the-dog-of-clarity
