Michael Gordon

Mike Gordon
Dover, NH

email: g_mike_g@hotmail.com
aged: 22 years
school: University of New Hampshire studying environmental conservation
passions: looking east to the ocean, indecision, live music, paddling boats, obscure local bands, being sarcastic
what this came from: Wendell Berry, Delillo, Vonnegut, Edward Abbey, Tool, Rustic Overtones, anyone who has ever loved, hated, angered, ignored, or was just plain there for me, and of course Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

Poetry

Body Cage

Body Cage

Body cage, arms and legs
Heads free
          Held not
Thoughts racing freights
          Place to place
Something alights
          right between
Stopping lights
           And engine steam
One night
Another change
            Coupled now are
Two trains
Winded steam
             Ends on distant plains
Empty space
             Holds tracks between
Sparking metal
Flowing light
              Windblown grasses
               Directing vision
Toward one division
In the night
             Arms held not
Connection
             Mind is caught

[Mike Gordon] [November 2003]

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