» Dickey by mark justice hinton

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My Virtual Chapbook - 2011

Unhinged Mon 04/04/11
Wind Makes Crazy Tue 04/05/11
Whispering, "Rain!" Wed 04/06/11
Graze Thu 04/07/11
Cold Lang Syne Fri 04/08/11
Merri! Sat 04/09/11
Blush Sun 04/10/11
Sharp Mon 04/11/11
Going Home Tue 04/12/11
Choke Wed 04/13/11
some lesser poet Thu 04/14/11
bask Fri 04/15/11
tuck Sat 04/16/11
flea Sun 04/17/11
Dickey Mon 04/18/11
The Heaven of Animals Tue 04/19/11
The Bright Side Wed 04/20/11
Slumber Thu 04/21/11
waiting for the tide Fri 04/22/11
Relentless Sat 04/23/11
Icarus Sun 04/24/11
at this very moment Mon 04/25/11
101° Tue 04/26/11
the cure Wed 04/27/11
up in the middle of the night Thu 04/28/11
Songdogs Fri 04/29/11
Seek Alternate Route Sat 04/30/11
this simple truth Sun 05/01/11

Themes (larger size indicates more poems):
2011 chapbook, age, birds, coyotes, death, dogs, dreams, flying, Icarus, illness, landscape, macro, Merri, misc, moon, mountains, nature, ocean, poetica, poetry, poets, rain, sleep, sunset, unbooked, water, wildlife, wind, wolves, writing

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Dickey

Tue 04/24/12 at 5:19 am

He caught
an adolescent’s mind
with sex
and wreckage,
a tragic fall,
and the grotesque
sheep child.
His was poetry
deformed and twisted
and I could not look away.
I had no words of my own
no tongue for lust
or sorrow
mouth open but mute
horny as hell
afraid I was ugly
sure that the world was.
He confirmed that and
changed it in the process.
The long fall turned beautiful
in the end because
any horror could be faced
and become a poem. mjh

18Apr97

I wrote this poem 14 years ago today. James Dickey died January 19, 1997. He was among the first modern poets I studied and enjoyed. I tipped my hat to him with my version of The Heaven of Animals.

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