4/3/2019 Poetry by David P. Kozinski Andrew Filer CC My Theory of Relativity “I look at maps of Mirny Mine. / They blur and sink away in salt water… I have work in an hour / and a hole in the ground / large enough to be seen from space” -Elizabeth Leo This is about the kindness of a dog and how a human should be, a little about cruelty, but mostly about scale – how vast it all appears; the indifference of the bluest fields and the nearest, newest moon. Friends, when I say this is about I mean history; the day and night, sleep and travel, tenderness and the grinder. In another hour the sands might still, the glass stopper itself; hands gesture to nothing but nothing unstopped stays the same. The silo empties as regularly as a lab rat’s feeder. Whatever first lifts us up from then on pulls down – the perpetual drizzle, the unsolvable argument of a trench seen from space and the chasm so deep under water where every story runs in its own time. Day at a Standstill Looking down and out the window as someone rocks back and forth on the sidewalk feet in the street over a lost limb, the collapse of magic in the non-shape of a discarded shoe. There is a beached whale in every poem and no excuse as worn as grief or jealousy dripping from the clouds an eye for an I. Here is a pulse like rocking back and forth over a lost shape a tugboat horn on the river at three a.m. Here is the prosecution of justice in a long-awaited eclipse. We hurry across the sand to a safe house at sundown find our way down a wrong but graver path. David P. Kozinski received the 2018 Established Professional Poetry Fellowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts. His first full-length book of poems, Tripping Over Memorial Day was published by Kelsay Books in 2017. He received the Dogfish Head Poetry Prize, which included publication of his chapbook, Loopholes (Broadkill Press). Kozinski was named 2018 Mentor of the Year by Expressive Path, a non-profit that facilitates youth participation in the arts. He serves on the Boards of the Manayunk-Roxborough Art Center and the Philadelphia Writers’ Conference and is Art Editor of the Schuylkill Valley Journal.
Patti Allis Mengers
5/22/2019 12:12:07 pm
David writes elegantly, with a true appreciation for the power of words and how they relate to daily life.. Comments are closed.
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