2 August 2008 | Vol. 8, No. 2
The Dog of History
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What's there
to tell
between
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My love
with your big bad eye
and blue-blind womb
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So what winter's late
Whose love's a late winter
the creek burned out and the dead
frogs echoing in the drainpipe
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Speak up:
your head's hung to know leavings
I am speaking up
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Your snout slit: biolology miff muff myth
Up front: scent enter
Aside: the slag
So as they say about shall the twins meet
And say get yers from out my line
And a line goes one way forever
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My face was born like that
One thing I know about
history's the litter spitting up
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 History" ran on August 2, 2008. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
