Original poem reprinted online here: "Lullaby with Bourbon" by George David Clark Originally read: November 10, 2013 More information about the Poet: George David Clark The language shows a differentiation between what is real and what is made to be fantastical. This divide is further compounded with the adjusted lines, and the fact that each stanza is ten lines long to contain the divide. The first stanza has a sense of motion because the poem opens up in the present, and also with a prepositional phrase, "Behind you lie a hundred yards of satin / paid out in a thin line" which should locate us, but rather dislocates. There's just hundreds of yards of satin behind that, "trailed around the house in slinky corkscrews, / tangled in the ficus / like a kite." This image dominates the setting, but note that this image is still behind, we don't know what is forward. Yet, when trying to get forward the poem goes for reasons expanding on the now, ...
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