Poems Only a Dog Could Love
By John B. Lee
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Poems Only a Dog Could Love - John B. Lee
Canada
To the sweet fop, these lines I send,
Who, tho’ no spaniel, am a Friend.
Alexander Pope.
For Quiante, who was a friend, now dead,
A dog, whose tail still wags within my head.
John Lee.
I
Dog Elegies
by Quiante
edited by John Lee
I
Rain falls
brown as bird bellies
thick as summer flies —
uncomfortable
I am —
cold, frightened —
I am —
abandoned
in my fear,
I bark,
ponderous,
immaculate,
shrill,
I am alone,
solitary as death.
Something jerks inside,
cocky,
curling in my entrails,
punkish thrusts
conspiring
like bad food
or sharp bones,
yet different somehow.
Deja vu
enthralls me,
I am surprised
playing a role
more perfect than a poet's
rain washing everything from me
but fear.
II
Seven have come from me already,
shot from me
my body
pronouncing their
powerful smallness
squeezing them out
like glurps of paint,
arbitrarily plopping
them in puddles
where they float like oilslicks.
III
The room is crouched
ceiling like a hairless belly
scrubbing me,
walls shivering around me
like tense thighs.
I am pounced upon by space—
constricted
by a throat of plaster—
closed in by shrinking orgiastic
smallness,
the powerful