DANIEL KANE |
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Kayak Trip I went on a kayak trip I succeeded at the kayak trip I was in It waited for me on an outcropping rock as I paddled towards it I paddled after it heron acting like Lassie the event was quiet * * I wonder if anyone would like to tell me a little story about For there are frogs and there are tadpoles there is fire and Oh there is a twig and there is an outhouse sounding of giggle So there is a stone and there is a kayak oar there’s a canoe Oh come upward to sing with nostalgia o wings of a heron in Mix all sorts of scraps it’s August my ears the orange has fallen
Beginning with Flapping The fly doesn’t flap her wings she doesn’t flutter them hummingbird do for I have seen the hummingbird suck or sip does the fly flap or flutter and what does the pigeon or a glider OK hawks glide of that I can be sure hawks glide of Scotland I do not cry out after the seal I do not wonder often huh I saw a squirrel scamper and nibble and once a squirrel kind of scurried up a tree which was as far as I know in the process of bulge in the tree a mysterious bulge as if some infection or tumor slap it I’ll slap it with my flip-flop and a duck just landed in the does it settle or slide or land into the pool a naked can be a forest of blood and you can wear a wedding dress but peck at the water as tests it yes I’d say a crane tests the water nibble and a squirrel kind of day or a crane day or ant moment life who would be like a river if life could be Daniel Kane is the author of All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s (University of California Press, 2003) and What Is Poetry: Conversations with the American Avant-garde (Teachers & Writers, 2003). His poems, interviews, and essays appear in in Fence, Exquisite Corpse, The Denver Quarterly, and other journals.
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