oh, how the posthumous flower blooms.

for shmoke-sifted-heftlander

Never seen the Pacific

or under the stola of

Lady liberty.

Never seen a book of poetry

in dedication to a fallen

poet. Never.

Never once a

Star Wars movie.

Too proper I guess

too educated to sense

that perhaps a love story hides

inself in the individual complexity

of nature. That what is outer

is now inner,

as hurt rectified again.

But truth be told, death

is the excellence of its kind/

the jurisdiction of lying down

and resting. And hell knows

no fury than a poet

keeping quiet/

hder

Reviews

[K. Louis]

f*****g fantastic. love this piece.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i've been at Lady Liberty and looked up at her...my grandfather came over from Sicily and was naturalized as an orphan...there are no fallen poets in our family...maybe i will be that someday...
"maybe death is excellence" since many poets get notoriety after they day...nothing like resting...forever eh?

and love is complex and poets know this, and write this and write about all the complexities of life...

"too proper/ too educated?" you? never...you are a poets poet...your words inspire, and you get to the guts of what we are, what we aspire to be....

i hope that other poets will write a good epitaph of us.

[m.s.early]

I wish your poetry were't so much smarter than me. It keeps me from collecting my thoughts or sounding intelligent. I can't formulate all the words to express why this grammatically appealing or how it relates to the classic authors in multiple ages.

Too simply put I know, but it moves me.

[writing mojo]

I guess a critic learns to be a white gloved gorilla capable of ripping your arms out of the sockets, or laughs after a bums cup cracks open and empties into a sewer under the catacombs of an underground rail road...all we have is short time to sort in a long time form..excellent piece

[Emily B]

oh, dana, this is just the sort of poem that is inspired among us, the space between living and breathing and that place beyond is tenuous, fluctuating and oh, so very easy to cross when we need to

this is amazing