The Lost Boy

BY J.P. Dancing Bear
for Tiziano Fratus

Somewhere inside the yellowing maps of your heart is a boy: he is a compass of patience: masked: like some Dumas character: speechless to a silent chamber: he calculates the latitudes: runs a finger along the coast of a continent: he wants to see: he wants to taste: he is humming a tune of the Sahara: beige desolation on a colored map: if he could break the lock of his box: he would go out running into the geography: he would send letters: wish you were here: exotic postmarks: strange faces and looks from foreign stamps: catch me if you can: scrawled out like someone sitting on a train: the motion making the cursive a little more elliptical: deep along the Tropic of a Graspless God

 

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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