September 21st, 2009 / 11:36 am
Author Spotlight & Excerpts

GIANT EXCERPT: from The Dance of No Hard Feelings by Mark Bibbins (#1)

Arriving In Your New Country

Wrong decisions are harder to make than most
people realize, tears flying sideways in a gale.

We swerve in the road so as not to hit dead things,

but I used to know someone who did the opposite.
He liked to drive through them. Stars are most

serious when seen from the back of a pickup truck

while very very drunk, and if someone kisses you
there it doesn’t count. I would grab your sadness

as a movie monster would, bring it to the harshest

part of the mountain: I haven’t seen this place yet
but I am told weeping is not part of its economy

and everything there is delicious if eaten alone.

All this week, HTMLGiant will be posting poems from The Dance of No Hard Feelings (Copper Canyon) Mark Bibbins’s eagerly and long-awaited followup collection to 2003’s Sky Lounge. Check back daily for fresh doses.

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5 Comments

  1. james yeh

      awesome. looking forward to seeing more.

  2. james yeh

      awesome. looking forward to seeing more.

  3. Michael Schaub

      This is beautiful.

  4. Michael Schaub

      This is beautiful.

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