Victory — Woman Metamorphosing into a Boat with Angels

BY J.P. Dancing Bear
for Simone Muench

Awake ye and come sailing: I think you have angels caught in the riggings of your hair: I say monkey fist: you talk about the latitudes: I go on continuously about pitch, roll, and yawl: you see the whale spouts and spindrifts: you are swinging the compass now: I fear the jibe: but you have faith in your preventer: I think it’s weird there’s no figurehead: you warn me to stay away from the cathead: all this time I thought I might have the figure to pull off an angel: you box the compass now: I’m all sea sickness and Arc of Visibility: you set a course: and the jacks all reply: Aye, aye

 

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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