The floating bridge : prose poems
/ David Shumate
- ix, 73 pages
Far Villages Mannequins Kafka The next village Big brother loses his virginity Fresh fish Pulling a rabbit out of a hat Don Quixote Metaphors Translating a poem The overwhelming sadness of the earth Plum Wisdom THE ORANGE FLAGS OF BABYLON The orange flags of Babylon Learning to eat a pomegranate The yellow bird Picasso The headless saints The amateur Zen master Trapped inside a Haiku poem The island of Nirvana Rain The dreams of children Trains The long road The bible belt The Gods The ladders of purgatory Drawing Jesus Jesus's IQ Seduction The Jewish Ghetto Boarding the bus to Gomorrah Om Zero Halo The house of death The Bedouins of Paris Spring in Paris Lucifer The kissing institute Pornography French foreign legion Gertrude Stein's gardener Dying park The gates of Paris An American in Paris Paris, USA The floating bridge Making a forest A visit with Dali North wind Children's book illustration, circa 1890 Learning Italian slowly A poem I wrote thirty years ago Chinese restaurant Welcome home, children The history of the umbrella While I sleep The fish