55. The English/Americans hit b(l)ack (zu Nr. 39)

Poetry Daily bringt einen Essay (aus der Zeitschrift West Branch) von Dorothy Barresi über schwarzen Humor und Poesie.

And then there is the great, deadpan Alan Dugan, whose „Love Song: I and Thou“ uses the interlocking metaphors of carpentry and crucifixion to characterize marriage:

God damned it. This is hell,
but I planned it, I sawed it,
I nailed it, and I
will live in it until it kills me.
I can nail my left palm
to the left-hand crosspiece but
I can’t do everything myself.
I need a hand to nail the right,
a help, a love, a you, a wife.

/ Februar 2004