Going Back - Softcover

Neely, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1491711949 ISBN 13: 9781491711941

Verlag: iUniverse, 2013

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In his sixth collection of poetry, Going Back, poet Jim Neely takes us on the long road from youth to old age with a wide array of human insights. He presents richly sensitive poetry overflowing with love and laughter for all things human and a voice that rings true with inevitable insights. The poems in this collection are intentionally scattered throughout the seven stages of man. In "Pitchfork" a boy lies on his back gazing up in darkness with his father, learning how to calculate the distance of storms from a strike of lightening. A member of "The Greatest Generation" Neely shows what made men so proud to go to war for their country. There is the joyful love of a first marriage in "Honeymoon" and the sadness of divorce in "Dream House" He struggles alone to unearth Hemingway's grave in the midst of an Idaho snowstorm in "A Farewell to Arms" and recalls his incomparable father's love of children in "The Cardboard Slide" and "Swinging with Heather" Direct and straightforward, yet realistic and imaginative in style, Neely's collection of verse explores a lifetime of experiences and emotions with pathos, humor, and startling resolutions.

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GOING BACK

By Jim Neely

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Copyright © 2013 Jim Neely
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ISBN: 978-1-4917-1194-1

Contents

The Tightrope Worker, 1, 
Swinging with Heather, 2, 
Poppy Is Dead, 3, 
A Farewell to Arms, 4, 
Ingénue, 6, 
Dancing Class, 7, 
Honeymoon, 8, 
The Liberation, 9, 
Pitchfork, 10, 
Sushi, 11, 
The Mint Doctor, 12, 
Rust, 14, 
La Belle Dame Sans, 15, 
Swan Lake, 16, 
Vickie's Stylish Umbilicus, 17, 
Broke, 18, 
Her Biopsy Report, 19, 
First Overnight at Gramps, 20, 
The Greatest Generation, 21, 
A Sight to See, 22, 
Déjà Vu, 23, 
Going Back, 24, 
The Kiss, 27, 
Roses, 29, 
The Philanthropist, 30, 
Forbearance, 31, 
The Cure, 32, 
Hot Air Balloon, 33, 
Doctor Nearly, 34, 
The Sweet Spot, 36, 
Leda, 38, 
The Nutcracker Again, 40, 
A Soft Shoe for Maybelle, 41, 
For Patti Hospitalized, 43, 
First Responder, 45, 
Low Impact, 46, 
The Leaves, 47, 
Send-Off, 48, 
For George, 49, 
Sunday, 51, 
At the Tollbooth, 52, 
The Rose Bowl Parade, 53, 
The Church's One Foundation, 54, 
The Leak, 55, 
Once, 56, 
Taste, 57, 
Ham, 58, 
The Clocks Bar, 59, 
Molly, 60, 
The Cardboard Slide, 61, 
Their New Chem Teacher, 62, 
The Burden Lesson, 63, 
My Feminine Side, 64, 
Up in the Old Hotel, 66, 
To Vivian Gone, 67, 
Opening Ceremony, 68, 
The Barges, 69, 
Entropy, 70, 
Day Of Infamy, 71, 
Yellow Rumped Warblers, 72, 
Awakening, 73, 
Mileage, 75, 
Mercy, 76, 
Fall Gathering, 77, 
How Life Begins, 78, 
Cobweb, 79, 
January, 80, 
On Yeats's Tower, 81, 
Ellendean, 82, 
Encore Paree, 83, 
Basic Need, 84, 
Beatitude, 85, 
Jaundiced, 86, 
Trinh, 88, 
Being Two Places at Once, 89, 
Grand Central, 91, 
Blackie, 92, 
Pops at Large, 94, 
The Living End, 95, 
Diva, 96, 
Sometimes, 97, 
Settlers, 99, 
Without Children, 100, 
Minnie Gates, 101, 
Purgatory, 103, 
Game Face, 104, 
Party Pooper, 105, 
The Trill, 107, 
Haunted, 108, 
Envoi, 109, 
Denouement, 111, 
Harrison Street, 112, 
The Assistant, 114, 
The Clot, 116, 
The Solution, 117, 
March 1941, 118, 
The Travelers, 120, 
Joe, 121, 
Spunky, 122, 
The Interview, 124, 
Au Milieu de La Nuit, 125, 
PSA, 126, 
Wake, 128, 
My Autopsy, 129, 
Trapper John, 131, 
How Are You, 133, 
Impaired, 134, 
Betwixt, 135, 
Oneiric, 136, 
Leisure, 137, 
The Last Time, 138, 
Animula, 139, 
How to Listen, 140, 
Groundhog Day 1896, 141, 
Waiting for Triple A, 142, 
Age Three Remi Has to Go, 144, 
Christmas 2011, 146, 
The Bouquet, 147, 
Pigeons, 148, 
Nurse Maria Theresa, 149, 
Goosed, 151, 
July 4, 152, 
Waiting For W. S. Merwin, 153, 
My Son The Surgeon, 154, 
The Bite, 156, 
Young Lovers, 157, 
Breakfast Nook, 158, 
Reservatus, 160, 
Blocked, 161, 
Stymie, 162, 
Reunions, 163, 
Class Notes, 164, 
Fetal, 165, 
Doing the Math 2012, 166, 
My Jeremy, 167, 
Eulogy, 168, 
Sleeping Alone, 169, 
Dream House, 170, 
Aliquot, 171, 
Stoplight, 172, 
My Ocular Migraine, 173, 
Afterword, 174, 

CHAPTER 1

     The Tightrope Worker

    Angel in the velvet moon
    I cannot catch your eye
    you prance such steeples full of fun
    your golden scissors two are one
    above a deadly sky

    unlike below where goad is gain
    yours no fear of slip
    fatality but finality
    cast off with charmer's quip

    your high dance begs fear of fail
    pure to the joy pursue
    O hurry down
    teach your weave to us
    wink on us anew

    end is only end itself
    whatever you chance to do


     Swinging with Heather

    The laughter that fun-curdles your tummy
    turns your sky forever into my love lap
    will always own the stretch of clear blue
    you've learned to seek
    with your head thrown back
    against the wind
    yours is this everlasting gem
    to tell the world you better be a better place
    than he has lived this past century
    as with your smile
    a sway pendant of truth today
    my tear-dusted face
    suddenly knows
    we have already done as much
    for you as we can
    and what you must find yourself now is unlearned
    the opening to those whom else madness
    I must trust will swing you
    half so well as us


     Poppy Is Dead
     For Christopher

    We explained to him
    something might enter to a sleeping bird
    catch one wing in a corner
    pin him unsuspecting in a cage corner
    where his towel had not been responsibly drawn
    rip out a socket there cleanly
    shearing feathers about
    before there was even time to cry out
    in the night
    shit happens
    thin bird blood could seep out
    noiseless before we knew it
    something escapes
    something inside him sated
    into the darkness of his life
    unaware while the bright plumage left
    folded slowly in upon itself breathless
    like he found it still this morning
    so coldly
    he packed all the feathers he could find
    in the one best candy box
    and beneath his high rope
    hung from the useless old split oak by the studio
    beneath her spread root he dug him deep
    a cover with the finest granular glass around
    and from the swing circling above
    smiling overall he cried
    rest down there all of you
    your crazy peace


     A Farewell to Arms

    In the dreary Idaho winter
    a man at the one grocery store
    there in Ketchum
    gave me a lead pipe scraper and told...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: iUniverse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1491711949
• ISBN 13: 9781491711941
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 190
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