The Poetry of Gary Charles Wilkens

Welcome

 

 

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.                                          

                                                                                    ~Rita Dove

 

FEATURED POEM

                                  

The Last Book

 

after Rita Dove's "The First Book"


Read painful books. Avoid
corn syrup sentiments in

fuzzy pajama language. Read
the last book read by

the gutless armadillo
in the road. Read the last poem

read by the doughboy before
he lept above the trench.

Read the old poet's last
feverish scribblings. Read

a book that could be your
last before you leave your clothes,

leave your sense and run
into the high field at midnight.

 

 

© Gary Charles Wilkens 2010

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