Monday, January 23, 2012

New Poetry by William Wright Harris









Ode on an Egg

Jungian theory of
Universal Archetypes;
an egg symbolizing
fertility for a
small tribe in
Africa, for Sioux
Nation. Every culture
has a flood myth
and vampire lore-
dragons, serpents, worms.
The blonde hair of
Freya and Aphrodite-
The beards of Tyr
and Ares, pointing
towards war-
Symbolism of all
creation, frying in a
pan, on my stove.


- William Wright Harris 2012




 Ode on a Chicken Pot Pie

Reading Bukowski
is like
eating a Chicken Pot Pie.
American lamentations,
the sore muscles from
working fourteen hours a day
six days a week
under
the hot California sun
are the chicken.
The sauce is race track poems-
gambling in their
drunken
loneliness again.
Peas, carrots, and
other vegetables
and
spices are the
references to Tchaikovsky,
Pound, Van Gogh.
Those honest chinaski
poems the cooked flour and egg
baked into a crust

Word by word
page for page
bite by bite
on the end of a fork.


- William Wright Harris 2012

William's poetry has appeared in seven countries in such literary journals as The Cannon’s Mouth, Ascent Aspirations, and Write On!!! He is a student at the University of Tennessee- Knoxville, where I have been lucky enough to study poetry in workshop settings with such poets as Jesse Janeshek, Marilyn Kallet, Arthur Smith, and Marcel Brouwers.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I needed insiration for my ode and you gave it to me! Thanks!