Literal, Littoral, Littleral by Danielle Pafunda

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend March 18, 2015   Literal, Littoral, Littleral   Danielle Pafunda

I have enough times been the ampersand, the hitch between two vehicles the vehicle itself careening questionably up the mountain road, which is, in my opinion, poorly designed, a hazard. It is sometimes called the coast, the coastal highway, but never the cliff-side transfer whereby you take your life in your hands, or more literally the wheel in your hands, or the hands beside which you sit, the wheel by which many subtle gestures ensure your safe arrival. Anyhow, it seems to me a very poor choice of transit. However much we love vehicular independence, the illusion thereof. Or the glamour of regency ghouls. That golden age. Anyhow, the vehicle, she, why not, that has many times been me, and hardly splendorous, sinking dolefully, doefully, dutifully into the “lake,” rolling graceless over, eating up the “blurred yellow lines,” eating pavement, often graciously so. I have been the pinch of weather in the phenomenological space between you lovers, the compartment in which you exist hand to thigh. The crowbar in the garden rusting from strange use, with little ambition, who would throw such a thing there? And when I am no longer analogous, I go. Likely poorer and better off besides.            Copyright © 2015 by Danielle Pafunda. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “This poem comes from a forthcoming collaborative Bon Aire Projects book with writer/artist Reagan Louise, wherein we wrangle with radical love, kinship, sisterhood, expansiveness, and hilaria. This poem is relatively ready to embrace 2015.” —Danielle Pafunda   Danielle Pafunda is author of The Dead Girls Speak in Unison (Coconut Books, 2014). She teaches at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. Most Recent Book by Pafunda   The Dead Girls Speak in Unison (Coconut Books, 2014) "The Strange Hours Travelers Keep" by August Kleinzahler "The Love-Hat Relationship" by Aaron Belz "Hey You" by Adrian Blevins Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends.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