Offshore Drilling

BY J.P. Dancing Bear
for Michelle Herman

Off the Butterfly Coast in moth light: in international waters: you can see the drilling has begun: no matter where you go: men with holes in their heads: what else would they do with their brains: and moths need to lubricate their elaborate wings: beige sky bright with fluttery light: it’s enough to make you look for a bulb: just to hear the tungsten itching away on the inside: you feel ceremonial: like handing out medals for trumped up deeds: this one’s for sitting still: that man feels a gush of blush coming on: the moth of excitement is getting twitchy: you want to say you’ve seen enough: but you can’t stop laughing

 

Biography

J.P. DANCING BEAR is the author of Conflicted Light (SalmonPoetry, 2008), Gacela of Narcissus City (Main Street Rag, 2006), Billy Last Crow (Turning Point, 2004) and What Language (Slipstream, 2002). His poems have been published in Shenandoah, Poetry International, New Orleans Review, National Poetry Review, DIAGRAM, Mississippi Review, Verse Daily and many others. He is the editor of the American Poetry Journal and the host of “Out of Our Minds,” a weekly poetry program on public radio station KKUP. His next book, Inner Cities of Gulls, will be published by SalmonPoetry in 2010.

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