Poems from the road · California, seventeen to twenty
Gay
Wandering
A nonlinear settler myth
Eleven young poems carried out of hitchhiking, festival stages, West Hollywood, dangerous lovers, ancient gods, and the stubborn fact of still being here.
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Selected evidence · I
And like Aphrodite they rose from the water,
— The Riverbank Gods
all radiant in the most elegant repose,
their beauty more dazzling than our own sun,
The poems keep their bruises.
Written between seventeen and twenty, these poems are wild, vain, frightened, erotic, grieving, and naïve. This edition repairs the damaged lines without teaching them better manners.
The complete object
One open loop,
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- 11 complete poems
- 04 full-color plates
- 01 interactive offline reader
- 01 archival, printable PDF
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Selected evidence · II
Some nights I just never sleep at all
— Some Nights
and I sit and I wonder where the stars would fall.
I sit here racked and shivering cold,
wondering who will be there to take care of me when I'm old.
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