Guy Kettelhack
has authored, co-authored or contributed to more than 30 nonfiction books. His poetry has appeared in print and online journals, including Melic Review, WORM 33, Desert Moon Review, Hiss Quarterly, and Anon. His poem “Alter Ego” was selected as a quarterfinalist in the Lyric Recovery competition in March 2004, and he won the Margaret Reid Poetry Prize for Traditional Verse in November 2004. Twenty of his poems appear in the New Pleiades Anthology of 2005. Book 1 and 2 of Soho Poems & Drawings About Drawings (collaboration with Norman Shapiro) can be found at ufemisms.com. He lives in New York City. —Back to Orsorum Contents— |
And So My DarlingWelcome to the brutal grinding force!—this blinding metamorphic Universe beyond all human measure—cursing—blessing— and through the energy and matter of the best and worst of it resides no test, no dare, no prayer. The mess around us doesn’t care: it’s far too busy dressing in its is. And so, my darling, pop or fizz or press or flow—you cannot kiss it into yes—or chop it into no. What maybe you can do is watch the show.
Garbage Day on West 73rd StreetTorn black plastic trash bag, vast arrayof spill: it’s pink and yellow, white and sky-blue baby bears and bunnies, doggies—mashed contorted, laid bare on the sidewalk, stuffed for play, appallingly astray. An upper west side childhood thrown away? A fond array of small pretend friends, here upended, once owned by a crazy lady whose mad disbelief her death, or right dose of Welbutrin, now cannot suspend? Some tortured academic’s bête noir habit heaved outside in desperate hope that this time he’d be able to survive without resorting to— cavorting with—his zoo of twee? (Disgusting cuddly-wuddlies!) Someone’s loss, at any rate, defines this mass and toss of terrycloth and plush, foam rubber, cartoon eye, bright grin; this heap of echoes—embryos of loneliness—dropped here like an unforgiven sin, destined for the bin.
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