Section dividers for Wellspring

I just printed these pages yesterday on the Cumbersome Multiples' C&P clamshell letterpress . It felt good to do a big print run. These original prints will be bound into each copy of my upcoming book of poetry Wellspring: Poems 1993-2003. It will available in the next couple of weeks from Publication Studio. Tracy did the design and it looks terrific!  

Poem: Some Great Men

I will publish a book of poems later this Spring with Publication Studio entitled Wellspring: Poems 1993-2003. This is from that collection.

SOME GREAT MEN

Some great men rage.

They bawl and yell,

open the doors of their chests

and out spills the universe.

Give me wine, I'll yell and rage too,

I'll cry despair on dirty streets

that have been washed clean

of enigmatic holy luster,

I'll finger my dreams in my pocket

and show you when the coast is clear.

Some great men walk quietly,

they shine like burnished lappis,

they speak with the voices

from the depths of the wellspring.

The world melts through their pores.

I sit for ten thousand years

dressed as a raven tied to a mesa,

and these men whisp away

like the mist on a morning river.

Some great men work in dusty places,

their stories told in epic poems over mashed potatoes,

while the rest of the family

takes their own trips

on oceans of T.V. noise

and cucumbers from the garden.

My hands are their hands,

and I go to wash off the blood and grease

in the still ocean of the world.