We must feature "Carousel" by Bill Kimzey in TheAwl, July 2011. It is a great example of how modern/unordered imagery can work. Usually modern poetry falls into the trap of being crass or boring, petty lists of the detrius of our mundane lives, but here diverse, odd little things are combined into a greater whole. There is harmony and symbolism here. It's quite Symbolist, almost.
Here's an excerpt:
At five I took up break dancing.
Enameled zebras and mermaids,
sinewed to my vertebrae, rode
the crest and trough of thudding
sinusoidal waves.
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