Share your comments
Cocktails
Powell, D. A.
Adult Nonfiction 811.54 P871
Powell, D. A.
Adult Nonfiction 811.54 P871
| |||||||||||
| Contents | Page |
|---|---|
| Mixology | |
| [the cocktail hour finally arrives: whether ending a day at the office] | p. 3 |
| [this is what you love: more people. you remember] | p. 4 |
| [he would care for me as a stranger: courtesy clerk. so quick] | p. 5 |
| [writing for a young man on the redline train: "to his boy mistress"] | p. 6 |
| [in the elegant days of downtown: we sunned on the porch] | p. 8 |
| [gardenhose dilated with rain: a puff adder] | p. 9 |
| [winter moon summer moon budding moon barley moon] | p. 11 |
| [a happiest harbinger to you: here spring] | p. 12 |
| [chapt. ex ex ex eye vee: in which scott has a birthday] | p. 13 |
| [dogs and boys can treat you like trash. and dogs do love trash] | p. 14 |
| [12-line poem, seemingly out of place] | p. 15 |
| [the mind of moss: sitting here by the reflecting pool] | p. 16 |
| [when you touch down upon this earth. little reindeers] | p. 17 |
| [this little treatment has side effects: side effects] | p. 18 |
| [hope you like this new doctor: rachel says in hopeful tones] | p. 19 |
| [my lover my phlebotomist. his elastic fingers encircle my arm] | p. 20 |
| Filmography | |
| [robe and pajamas, steadfast and softer than anyone who touched me] | p. 23 |
| [a mule-drawn scraper packed this earth: levees] | p. 24 |
| [19 lines] | p. 25 |
| [I was a priapic boy: the prow of a galleon] | p. 26 |
| [a boy at 15 can't be too tough: approximate masculinity] | p. 27 |
| [every man needs a buddy. who'll do] | p. 28 |
| [college roommate gone: his hamper full. I'll do us both a favor] | p. 30 |
| [the man in the front row: uniformed. ugly as my father the disillusioned] | p. 31 |
| [morning broke on my cabin inverted. tempest in my forehead] | p. 33 |
| [fortune drives a finned convertible: her blond wig shifts in the wind] | p. 35 |
| [you'd want to go to the reunion: see] | p. 36 |
| [so the theatre dimmed and reclined. cramped balcony rubbed against my leg] | p. 38 |
| [the atrium of the heart beckons with pendulous lips] | p. 40 |
| Bibliography | |
| [my lot to spin the purple: that the tabernacle should be made] | p. 43 |
| [unsheathed the sword and cut the veil. visible the planet red] | p. 46 |
| [he tastes the air with his tongue. his eyes a gory kitling] | p. 47 |
| [my riches I have squandered. spread with honey] | p. 49 |
| [strange flower in my hands. porphyry shell. clipped wool] | p. 50 |
| [they hear the clapping of the bell and are afraid] | p. 51 |
| [torch to the stubble of the fields: the harvest has ended] | p. 52 |
| [slightly foetid. foetal and stooped. an afterbirth of rags] | p. 53 |
| [the heavenly noise of domesticity murmurs in the kitchen: clink] | p. 54 |
| [not a waking mutter. the locusts in cessation] | p. 55 |
| [because I were ready before destruction. bearing the sign of his affliction] | p. 56 |
| [listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying] | p. 57 |
| [the ice hadn't cracked. stingy ground: frozen with its hoard of bulbs] | p. 58 |
| [A characters not reproducible] | p. 60 |
| [came a voice in my gullet: rise up and feast. thunderous] | p. 61 |
| [when he comes he is neither sun nor shade: a china doll] | p. 62 |
| [coda & discography] | p. 65 |
Question about returns, requests or other account details?
| Submission Guidelines |

