by Jordan Dotson | Apr 21, 2018 | Things I wish I'd written
The world is old, it was always old, There’s nothing new in it this afternoon. The garden could’ve been a padlocked window Of a pawnshop I was studying With every item in it dust-covered. …from “Emily’s Theme,” by Charles Simic, in... by Jordan Dotson | Sep 26, 2017 | Things I wish I'd written
She’s certainly bewitched me with her innocent airs. As light as blown glass, her figure, her bearing seems like a figure off a screen. But she instantly frees herself from the glossy lacquer background. This little butterfly flutters and settles with such silent... by Jordan Dotson | Aug 5, 2016 | Predicates and commas and whatnot, Things I wish I'd written
At the end of a dark corridor There is a lit match in a trembling hand “I still have stage fright,” The beautiful woman says, And then she leads us past wardrobes With mirrors and creaking doors Where whispering dresses hang, Whispering corsets, button... by Jordan Dotson | Mar 20, 2016 | Things I wish I'd written, Uncategorized
Beauty, dark goddess, We met and parted As though we parted not. Like two stopped watches In a dusty store window, One golden morning of time. …”In The Street,” by Charles Simic, from The Voice at 3:00AM by Jordan Dotson | Jun 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Charles Wright is a master of the meditative, image-driven lyric,” Librarian of Congress James Billington said in an announcement Thursday. “For almost 50 years his poems have reckoned with what he calls ‘language, landscape, and the idea of...