Memorizing Poems

by Philip Dacey
  
A man learning
to juggle; a line
clatters to the floor.

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On the walls of the cave of the mouth,
the words like horses at Lascaux.

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Blind man led by a dog:
nice brain, good brain,
thank you, brain.

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Resurrect
the body of the poet
in the body of the poem
in your body.


© 2007 by Philip Dacey. All rights reserved.

Philip Dacey's ninth and latest book is The New York Postcard Sonnets: A Midwesterner Moves to Manhattan (Rain Mountain Press, 2007).