BLACKOUT COUNTRY by Rob Cook
| BLACKOUT COUNTRY | Rob Cook | BlazeVOX [books] |
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WHAT WILL BE NEEDED WHEN YOU LEARN
ABOUT THE DEATH OF YESTERDAY'S SKY
A drought atlas.
A radio tuned to the shredding of at least one flag.
A heartbeat that's easier to hide.
A way to reach the farmer tracking his flock of stones.
The farmer who said: There were only suggestions of thunder
inside the grasses who could no longer follow the clouds.
Flowers that decayed long ago into pennies.
A tunnel dug by homeless men between Jupiter and the collected rainwater.
A moon that thinks the people are serious about killing him.
And a technique for measuring that fear.
A decision to condemn who carried the cold on his back the longest.
No one told me I would be punished
for walking farther than the rain, he might have said.
A man who stays awake sharing his clothes
with ravens on a chat line.
A man who speaks only in sparrow currency.
The one raven left who reaches its collapsed star.
A woman sleeping with static,
and later with what causes the static.
A butterfly in which three hundred people
can be stowed without making
the wind suspicious.
Without the lost light unraveling any closer to the ground.
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Rob Cook is a former lead guitarist now living with his girlfriend and two cats in Manhattan's East Village. His other two collections are Songs For The Extinction Of Winter and Diary Of Tadpole The Dirtbag, both from Rain Mountain Press. Work has appeared in Harvard Review, Colorado Review, Massachusetts Review, Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, The Canary, New Orleans Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, etc. He's been nominated for enough Pushcarts to know he will never win one.
Book Information:
· Paperback: 89 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
· ISBN: 9781935402145
