Poem-A-Day: Clonazepam by Donald Dunbar

January 28, 2014 Clonazepam  by Donald Dunbar   Finally, stability. Finally, the fractal iteration of kings. The legless herds lie still in the fields and eventually the fences crumble and the wilderness returns.   Like cinnamon coaxed back out of the tongue, this book is a formalist approach for a kiss. Or vice versa.   Like a kiss is oblivious, they don't know their homestead is meat; is meat in an age of eternal iteration.   Finally I have met you in this video of cyborgs making out, making out with androids in the comments below.     Copyright © 2014 by Donald Dunbar. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem  "There's a drawing by Natasha Allegri, one of the artists behind Adventure Time, of an anime schoolgirl with her bag thrown carelessly over her shoulder, big eyes gleaming, a hopeful, wondering smile, and crystals jutting from her limbs and side and forehead and black ooze splashing out with them. I've been thinking a lot about the marriage of animal and mineral; CAFOs, GMOs, Google Glass, psychoactives, the terraforming of the world via civilization, the organization of matter into life, death. 'Clonazepam' is one of a headdress of sonnets, a mutation of the sonnet crown, in which the poems are related not by bookended lines, but by themes, phrases, patterns of associations, and modifications to the mechanical and spiritual expectations of the sonnet form." --Donald Dunbar Most Recent Book by Dunbar Slow Motion German Adjectives (Mammoth Editions, 2013)         Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.     Donald Dunbar is the author of two books of poetry, most recently Slow Motion German Adjectives (Mammoth Editions, 2013). Dunbar lives and teaches in Oregon.  Related Poems The Earth Opens and Welcomes You by Abdellatif Laâbi Elegy in Limestone by CJ Evans  String Theory Sutra by Brenda Hillman  __________________________ Love reading Poem-A-Day? Help support it today.     Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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