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Scott Poole
What is Kept and What is Sold
The book of poetry I find
most often at garage sales
is the Rubaiyat of Omar.
Leather bound, rice paper middle
wrapped in cheese cloth
swathed in paper dust
among the power tools with no chords
the kid's clothes that belong
to kids who are gone.
Carousing with dead blenders, plastic
bodies and household aids
inspiring so many
salad shooters, pulp novels,
and arid waterbeds.
Omar, what do you think?
Is this poetry?
Just once I'll do you a favor
I'll grab a copy and hook-shot it
over the basketball hoop
and onto the roof.
This is where you belong
on top, gone, just over our heads.
Scott Poole, a graduate of the Eastern Washington University MFA in Creative Writing Program, helps run the Eastern Washington University Press. His first book of poetry debuted Spring 1999, entitled The Cheap Seats. Scott Poole was published in the first issue of Gumball Poetry as well. His web page is here.
Email Scott Poole at srpoole@gumballpoetry.com
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