What's Wrong With This Picture
Dean YoungWe've always been where we are ( Read more... )

I'm surprised this isn't anywhere in the memories...

The InfirmamentDean Young ( Read more... )

Poem Without Forgiveness

The husband wants to be taken back
into the family after behaving terribly,
but nothing can be taken back,
not the leaves by the trees, the rain
by the clouds. You want to take back
the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel
remains in the wound, some mud.
Night after night Tybalt’s stabbed
so the lovers are ground ( Read more... )

"Blue Garden"
by Dean Young

A dog tied to a parking meter
should never give up theorizing
the curve in the continuum where space
becomes time and time becomes a big
bowl of grub. A poem should be able
to say that in one word but maybe that word
is zypxtflo.
A poem should be a window
and breaking the window behind which
the mannequins are made of springs,
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Also, a question!

Anyone have the Dean Young poem that starts something like "Don't take it personally / but I did?"

I've only heard him read it aloud and haven't seen it in print, but I remember there was a line around the middle that I really loved.  If someone could post the poem or point me in the right direction, I'd be much obliged. 

If someone had asked me then,
Do you suffer from the umbrage of dawn's
dark race horses, is your heart a prisoner
of raindrops? Hell yes! I would have said
or No Way! Never would I have said,
What could you possibly be talking about?
I had just gotten to the twentieth century
like a leftover girder from the Eiffel Tower.
( My Indian name was Pressure-Per-Square-Inch. )

We Through Mists Descry ( Read more... )

Sources Of The Delaware ( Read more... )

Static City
by Dean YoungSome of us sitting around listening to static ( Read more... )

Sources of the DelawareI love you he said but saying it took twenty years ( Read more... )