[New-Poetry] Laura Jensen

[David Graham]

A symposium on Laura Jensen in the latest issue of *Pleiades*,  
available online as a PDF file:

http://www.ucmo.edu/englphil/pleiades/JensenSymposium.pdf

Good to see this strange & fine poet getting some overdue  
recognition.  Last I checked, her books were all or almost all out of  
print, unfortunately.

The Red Dog


You know that he is going to die
as soon as I tell you
he is standing beside me
his hair in spikes and dripping
from his body.  He turns his head.
Canadian geese
all of them floating along the shore.
The red dog is swimming for them
only his head shows now
they flap into a curve and move
farther along the bay.
You know that he is going to die
this is the time for it
this is the best time for it
while there is a way to vanish
while the geese are moving off
to be their hard sounds
as their bodies leave the water.

--Laura Jensen.  Bad Boats.  Ecco Press, 1977.





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