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Joshua
Butts Poem of the
Teenager
Are there strings on the canary
and black? If so, it’s
hush on the defense. Bruises await the cold tub, though
they are hardly bruises yet. Having come up with the ball, and having broken
the plane we go to the cold millimeters: an old
director cutting to the jaw line of some brute ingénue as she
crosses tomboy into straight cut above the knee organza, still some
part of herself but
better, improved, realized. Many films are made on this rule, plastic high school welcoming
puberty by the hand and
welcoming all but those Jan & Dean
deadly curves. Joshua
Butts’ work has recently appeared in Quarterly West, Forklift, Word
For/Word and Sonora Review. To Learn to Fingerpick
Guitar, a chapbook, was published in 2006
by Pudding House. |
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