On Finding Bloodstains in My Notebook After a Bad Party by Alan Dugan
On Finding Bloodstains in My Notebook After a Bad Party
Alan DuganThe bloodstains on this page
are islands made asleep
by strangers. Not of my knife
or knowing, they appear
as Thule did to mariners
lost in the monstered maps
of medieval cartography.
So, however here, be here,
as proof or fiction that
a secret brother dreams
while I’m awake
and wakes up while I sleep,
as mapper, sea-self, twin,
who navigates a course for me
from here to the Bloodlust Isles
so I can wake up as a liar,
not knowing where I’ve been.
MARGINALIA
No no no no no no no no no no no no no. WHY, T. WHY. Why do you have to send an email while drunk why why why why why why why.
ABOUT ALAN DUGAN
Alan Dugan was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 12, 1923. In 1949, he earned a BA from Mexico City College. Dugan taught at Sarah Lawrence, Connecticut College, and the University of Colorado. Dugan’s first book, Poems (1961), selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of the poetry collections Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry (2001), winner of the National Book Award; Poems… (more)
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