[New-Poetry] Ander Monson

[David Graham]

Astonish

If the work of rock is shift & chip & fault,
then the work of fingertip along neck
is good and well-deserved; then asphalt can
astonish us by going soft in back
of Festival Foods, where the bears' Friday
night dumpster-dive for trash & strew & mess
is entertainment for us this far north.
Asphalt's slumming, slurring under sun is
some work too. If what we call a road is
no more solid than a Shamrock Shake thrown
out, reclining in the trash. If what we
call the ground is hurtle, globe, then we are
breakneck, roller coaster gone, or famished
from lack of love, finishing & finished.


--Ander Monson.  Vacationland.  Tupelo Press, 2005.



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