11/13/2017 Poetry by Alan BrittPANCAKES Plaster eyes, indentations traced like mascara moons sent to deify the Pharaoh. Cherubs, pollywog angels, deliver slices of wheat berry, sans gluten. Arizona jaguar rippling a Liszt piano licks its saffron nose & yawns a rainbow of silk geishas crossing the border. Monk’s bloodstained robe, as monks’ robes often hint of iron, lodges teeth into vertebrae out of habit, dressed in habit, & slashes a gaseous mountain large enough, large enough to shield bald eagles, heretic cougars, & rusty grizzlies, plus sawdust sunlight showering an upper 16th century row house’s late afternoon milkmaid hiding the affair beneath layers of consternation & silk. ↑ ← → ↓ Puerto, Puerto, Rico, Rico. Puerto the firefly blasting his way through the universe knows the secret, secret of liquorice religion, secret to secret’s secrets that plunged roots long ago through the garlic tidal, wild onion, & toxic copper from Neruda’s grave. Silk adjectives stained by wine kisses weave a lace of white lightning on bended knee, begging for mercy, & solemn to religion the way lightning shivers the August air we breathe & piss in—right after that your family reunion could be my family reunion, & you know what that means. ![]() Bio: Alan Britt has published over 3,000 poems nationally and internationally in such places as Agni, Bitter Oleander, Bloomsbury Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Christian Science Monitor, Confrontation, English Journal, Epoch, Flint Hills Review, International Gallerie (India), Kansas Quarterly, Letras (Chile), Magyar Naplo (Hungary), Midwest Quarterly,Minnesota Review, Missouri Review, New Letters, Northwest Review, Osiris, Pedrada Zurda (Ecuador), Poet’s Market, Queen’s Quarterly (Canada), Revista/Review Interamericana(Puerto Rico), Revista Solar (Mexico), Roanoke Review, Steaua (Romania), Sunstone, Tulane Review, Wasafiri (UK), and The Writer’s Journal. His interview at The Library of Congressfor The Poet and the Poem aired on Pacifica Radio, January 2013. He has published 16 books of poetry. He teaches English/Creative Writing at Towson University. Comments are closed.
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