For issue 39 of Shape of a Box, we present 2 poems by Eddie Dowe.
Copyright 2009
BIO: Eddie Dowe is a high school English/Creative Writing teacher in Norfolk, Virginia and a student in Old Domini...
For issue 39 of Shape of a Box, we present 2 poems by Eddie Dowe.
Copyright 2009
BIO: Eddie Dowe is a high school English/Creative Writing teacher in Norfolk, Virginia and a student in Old Dominion University's Creative Writing Program. Previous publications include Trillium, the strange fruit, Simply Haiku, Lunarosity, and Mannequin Envy, among others. A few of his poems can be viewed at the following sites: http://www.facets-magazine.com/dowe.html, http://www.zianet.com/lunarosity/dowe...http://mannequinenvy.com/a.dowe.eddie..., and www.poetrylives.com/SimplyHaiku/SHv4n1/t anka/Dowe.html
I am in love with you, bank teller. So lift the cool swim of your dress and call me Jesse James.
The clock turns on twelve, its guns drawn. I have a silver dollar in my boot heel.
Kiss me. Your mouth like a bullet, my spurs spinning. Keep your eyes on me.
This is a robbery. ___________________
Burden
1.
I am chasing a child through a garden of thistle and blazing stars. The dark diamond of summer heat surrounds me. Five fingers in the foxglove, honeysuckle, hornets in the hibiscus. Somehow, this morning, this child is in our bed under the red sheets looking for his hands. I was beginning to give up on you, he says. I am ready to be named.
2.
In the shade of the Judas tree, among the slender blue flags nodding their necks. Among the trumpets, turtleheads, jack-in-the-pulpit, we find a bird a cardinal, like a small flame. Is it dead? he asks. I cannot answer. My eyes are in the thorn bush and another child is pulling himself out of my mouth.
3.
Having been lost for so long, he enters each room, demands to know where we have been, why he could not find us. We ask forgiveness, milkweed blooming from his hair, galax and arrowhead. Adam and eve bowing under the maple.We did not know that you would grow. We did not know that you would live.
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