The Book of Nine Elixirs

Poems

By David Appelbaum

Subjects: Poetry
Imprint: Distribution Partners
Paperback : 9781930337107, 86 pages, September 2010

Table of contents

The Crow
An order
Conjunction
The Sacrifice
Fable
The Spindle

The Ostrich
Phytolacca
Love song
Cure all
Raising the dead
About home
Frost bite
The Mouse
Theft of gold

The Dragon
At the horizon
What the scout found
The foundation never built
Harvest
Spring ice storm
Maple
Stealth
Long beach

The Pelican
First watch
The Ninth Elixir
Under mistletoe
The whales
For the count
Consolations
In the grip
On dry land
Desire

The Phoenix
Welcome
Homecoming
Exuberance
The message
By the fire
Toad
Woodcut
Bivouac
A last meal

Description

sucked two small drops
of blood
& I suddenly saw
the lust of his attack
& felt its
most serious
misunderstanding
of my life.