by Michael Waters
Supported by the Estate of EMK
American Poets Continuum Series
Michael Waters writes
vivid, sensual poems that fuse our longings in this world with
the human urge to glimpse whatever lies beyond. Waters' muse is
Walt Whitman and, like much of Whitman's work, his poems challenge
us to abide one another and embrace humanity's imperfections.Waters'
generous poems, crafted syllable by syllable, speak to love and
loss, our foibles and shortcomings, and the possibility of aesthetic
and spiritual transcendence.
Wasps
for my father
Dead
C battery, souvenir lighter, spool of thread,
lipstick
tube lacking a smudge of red:
we'd
rummage junk drawers to fill the squares.
But
the lost chessmen?—
they
click against glass, black
bishops
bidding me open the window,
wheedling
a wary God to release them
to
crusade for their king gone ahead to Jerusalem.
©BOA
Editions, Ltd 1997
Available editions:
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Paperback
ISBN: 1-880238-43-8
Price: $12.50
Publishing Date: January 1997
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