November 2008 - Meador

The Centrifugal Eye

November 2008 - Meador

"Peek"

Dallas J. Bryant - 2008

They tell us in books
what it supposedly means,
those things of our dreams.

You were there, combing your hair,
sitting against the side of the house.
I saw you from the attic window.

You were hidden behind the frond,
watching me dog paddle
through the pond.
I was looking for frogs.

You were there at the bus stop.
Wearing that flimsy halter top
when the pony-tailed guy walked by.

We were writing something in the dirt
in the ditch, scratching with long sticks.
You were laughing, heartily.

Why do the books tell me
the mud on your face
means you're hiding something?

Why can't it be
that those things of my dreams
are simply
those things of my dreams?

"Crystal Clear"

E.A. Hanninen - 2008

Steve Meador's book Throwing Percy from the Cherry Tree won the D-N Publishing 2008 National Book Competition and was released in April. It has been nominated for several awards, including a National Book Award, for poetry. He has appeared in Umbrella, MIPOesias, Word Riot, Foliate Oak, Avatar Review & many other journals. He also has two chapbooks by Pudding House Publications. "Percy" is available from www.amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com and D-N Publishing. Steve is a real-estate broker, and lives in Florida with his wife and three sons.

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"Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it." ~ Franz Grillparzer, Notebooks and Diaries

Contemporary Poetry With An Eye Towards Resistance