MiPO 2005

GUEST EDITOR GABRIEL GUDDING ~THE STRANGE CALL
VOLUME 19, ISSUE 3 ISSN 1543-6063

It Was Late and Deep in Snow

You left, like handedness or a shoe.

In the Neighborhood - Infinite Distances
A bee - against my window - inside - this time - this time -

Meek Epic

Two separate indentations on a bedcover.
        Dark streets harvesting light rain.
        Dumb skin.
        Snowdrifts uncurled in spring's arms.
        A half-kiss, a ki-.
        Trees inconsistently.

Black and White, and the Grey Gray Thing

We were two to a tee, yea, we were woe. Needed an inordinate amount of mint in it, or else the status was staleness. Trusted tenses, though they’d trussed us. And hoped what one’d done’d add up to elation, earned. Aligned by better ends’ means.
Meantime, meanness. The thickest thickset thickets. Out of the woodwork endlessly appearing. From the terrible doubt of what we’d become.

Geoff
Bouvier

Geoff Bouvier's first book, Living Room, was selected by Heather McHugh as the winner of the 2005 APR/Honickman Prize. His writings have appeared in dozens of journals, including American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, jubilat, New American Writing, Western Humanities Review, and VOLT. He received an MFA from Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 1997. He currently lives in San Diego, where he publishes journalistic prose for The San Diego Reader.

{THE INTERVIEW}
Birdie Jaworski Visit With MR. Bouvier