The Corduroy Mtn.


Dash #20
Brooklyn Copeland



Where I am
overwhelmingly only my
shoes and suitcase.
I am sounded out in
a made-up nation's
bath time pidgin:
aloe vera...
ivory... ivoire... Arrival
mirrorwise
leers a leer
not surprisingly only a
twentysomething can.




[ From FLOATING WORLD, a manuscript written in response to paintings by A. Dale Nally, who recently showed in my little hometown, at a new gallery seven minutes' walk from my doorstep. The title of each poem is taken from a painting by the same name. You may view this painting here ]

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Added to The Corduroy Mtn. on March the Seventeenth in the year Two Thousand and Nine.