Popcorn! by Mark McKee

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend August 8, 2014   Popcorn!   Marc McKee

for DL Let us for the new all room make. You say my schooner is upside down and I say my umbrella is enviable. The gigantic punishment the sun says something about broken glass making every room sparkle-sashed, every bright beauty terrifies, the furious gift the sun mugs through its Rilke routine with its boots unzipped. With its Italian leather boots zipped down. What could be could be better. Think hard, sail hard, love hard, in the new there should be a window through which we come and go as we please without opening a vein. Midnight and noon square dancing on the empty stage should be. The ocean, because always the ocean. The taxis, because after this, we will be in no shape to drive. Let us give thanks for vehicles imagined into real, for the wings we think onto things and isn’t it a disorienting play date, this breathing business, the seethe of witness and acting, achtung! and all variance? Let us lick our glossiest lips at the varying variance. We now return you to your original question. One answer is popcorn.            Copyright © 2014 by Marc McKee. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “‘Popcorn!’ was spurred into being by seeing a status update or tweet by the poet Dorothea Lasky (the DL of the dedication) that went, I believe, ‘Let us all make room for the new.’ Messing with the syntax and making the result my first line allowed me to insist on our role in making—and subsequently apprehending—new reals. It’s not an original idea, but I do believe that one of the best ways to make room or to room make is to indulge in serious play.” —Marc McKee   Marc McKee is the author of Bewilderness (Black Lawrence Press, 2014). He teaches at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. Most Recent Book by McKee   Bewilderness (Black Lawrence Press, 2014) "from Oracles for Youth" by Caroline Gilman "Sci-Fi" by Tracy K. Smith "Civilization" by Carl Phillips Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. 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.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038