Saturday, September 6, 2014

Philip Schaefer

Philip Schaefer's piece in NightBlock, issue 3, called "Bear Love Magic Porn Ballad" is very exceptional [despite the title], it has a very strong voice. It has a great intensity, something the novel Cold Mountain was trying for and sometimes evoked. This poem has a very clear, clawing pull--you can immediately fall into it. It works on many levels, making it even more interesting.

Here's an excerpt:

Your black eyes at midnight hold two
nails of moon - dug out parentheses,
two white sails over an ocean in view
of the horizon - a thin line of energy

lifting you up that maple, that wood
I call my heart [...]

                                  our love
as red as a gunshot of crows
[...]

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