Elephants & Butterflies

by Parker, Alan Michael

• ISBN13: 9781934414057
• ISBN10: 1934414050
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: Boa Editions

Summary

Wild and calm, boisterous and quiet, these accessible poems contain surprisingly complex philosophical and personal knowledge.

Table of Contents

Arts and Crafts
Drawing on Myself	p. 13
The Fog	p. 15
The Eclipse	p. 17
An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding	p. 19
Elephants & Butterflies	p. 21
What Has He Got	p. 24
Cars Poetica	p. 25
Television Psalm	p. 28
If the Animals	p. 30
The Invention of Money	p. 32
Words for Spring	p. 33
Wherein the Flesh Abides	p. 35
What Was He Saying and to Whom	p. 37
Larkinesque	p. 38
My Son, Under the Waterfall	p. 40
Arts and Crafts	p. 42
For My Next Trick	p. 44
A Peal of Sonnets
Sunday Sonnet	p. 49
Monday Sonnet	p. 50
Tuesday Sonnet	p. 51
Wednesday Sonnet (Some of You)	p. 52
Thursday Sonnet	p. 53
Friday Sonnet (Aubade)	p. 54
Saturday Sonnet	p. 55
Peaches or Plums
The Offering	p. 59
The Song of Mrs. Hue	p. 61
Oh, What a Red Sweater	p. 63
Peaches or Plums	p. 65
Next Day Air	p. 67
Dog Drinking from the Bowl	p. 69
Propter Hoc	p. 72
I Have Been Given a Baseball	p. 74
Jelly Jar Ode	p. 76
Birth. Mud. Hyacinth	p. 78
My B&E	p. 81
Apology (to the Muse)	p. 83
Notes	p. 85
Acknowledgments	p. 87
About the Author	p. 89
Colophon	p. 96
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