![]() Late at night, I call my long distance lover,Īnd proudly say I only used fifty-nine today. McDaniel has been described as “one of the few poets that has successfully united the distant cousins of poetry: spoken word and written poetry.” Or, listening to a song you’d never heard before, but knew it was meant to be a part of your life somehow. It was like hearing an old friend’s voice over the phone. Like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. The I’ll love you through a brick wall kiss.Įven when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth, Then look up the first recorded kiss in an encyclopedia: beneathīut one kiss levitates above all the others. Hold it to your chestĪnd wonder if the sand inside hourglasses comes from a It’ll turn bright pink and explode into a thousand luscious splinters,īut in the morning it’ll be ashamed and sneak out ofĪnd you’ll remember that kiss forever by all the little cuts it left It’ll get suspiciousĪnd stare at your toes. Rub two warm feelings and presto-you have a kiss.Īnd answer the door in your underwear. Oh whereĭoes one find love? If you rub two glances, you get a smile. Were younger, you’d pull over, slide open the mouth’s Home and see a damaged kiss on the side of the road, Your tongue like the back of my hand kiss. The I accept your apology, but you make me really mad The bury me in an avalanche of tingles kiss. So whereĭoes one find love? When you’re sixteen it’s easy, I opened it up to “The Archipelago of Kisses”: I wound up in the M’s and plucked Splinter Factory from the shelf: a small, paperback of Jeffrey McDaniel’s poems. I wanted to bypass Szymborska and Auden and Lowell and find someone we hadn’t read in class, so I got lost in my university’s Poetry Center. #24 – – Charles Bukowski, by Intern EmilyĪ poetry professor asked us to bring a poem to class and share it with everyone. #23 – – NSFW Sunday is Pure Poetry Edition, by Riese #22 – – William Carlos Williams & Robert Creeley, by Becky #20 – – Veronica Franco, by Queerie Bradshaw #11 – – Saul Williams, by Katrina Chicklett Danger ![]() #9 – – Shel Silverstein, by Intern Lily & Guest #4 – – Andrea Gibson, by Carmen & Katrina/KC Danger was still Mexico, and an address to the speakers dead ancestors. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema Free Essay: The Quite World by Jeffrey McDaniel In an effort to get people to look.Jeffrey McDaniel Even when Im dead, Ill swim through the Earth,like. we just sit on the line and listen to each other breathe. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodle soup.I am adjusting well to the new way.Late at night, I call my long distance lover, I only used fifty-nine today. LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now Jeffrey McDaniel (born 1967) is an American poet. ![]()
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