Thunderbird
By Jane Miller
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Jane Miller
David Miller is a writer living in Chicago. This is his first novel.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In "Thunderbird," Jane Miller writes a series of poems linked by last line and title and a kind of stream of consciousness rendering of what seem to be stories she has been told as well as her own experiences. She often juxtaposes seemingly unrelated images and tries to rehabilitate stake expressions by their introduction into these juxtapositions. Overall, the book is a modest success; but sometimes the effort is strained. For this reader at least, the emotion did not always feel real or earned by the getting to it.
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Thunderbird - Jane Miller
THE TREE ENTIRE
My brain lies crushed sideways
in a pillow of a morning
I hear you both faintly
deciding whose fields to empty
to clear-cut first growth
knowing such an odious decision
is prompted by a greater emergency
a fire on your watch
where officially a firewall is called for
I accept your predicament
your view obstructed
from your dark red couch
on a nearby planet
as two shining stones
you think the friction between you
is blazing hot and not just
death’s genitals
which are a part of nature
NATURE
Do we need time to vanish
and to reappear like childhood
religious music?
it’s stirring isn’t it?
but not for us
as Fortinbras says to Hamlet when he’s dead
to greet each other or bid farewell
where spooked horses refuse chase
we have only brute memory
without a wishing well
we are like gypsies with pink mandolins
against oblivion
we are gypsies with yellow wrist bells
a melting piccolo and a melting piano
WISHING WELL
The next day nearly kills me
along a frozen river or so I hear
the chaos around an old house
intimidating purposefully
like a snowplow one would assume
but it would be your human sound
scraping the white space from this page
has awakened me
now that you understand power in private life
you see my sore loser’s blanket over my head
stemming a slow internal bleed before you leave
like a cat loose among hounds
that I do not think got killed by accident
ACCIDENT
During the ritual of dishes
I cut my trigger finger
breaking last night’s