The Preface
some landscape for joan
My vanity
all kinds of roads
looking out
at the blue
black mountains
and so many
houses down
among the floor
the crime
of so many of us
big bold stripe
overhead
but its
different
too
it’s not how
the dinosaurs
saw
one volume
held what turned
out to
be the window
of my
life
I keep plunging
you just have
to wait
till it sees
you again
only that
one lens
to be
enough to the father
of the day
and her sound
it’s layed
out so regular
like god
and you just
pick out
your business
and land
on the land
the stripes
the crawling
ants; look what we’ve
done
the other
window
darker pony
I’m such
a mess
finally seeing
the end of
it thank
god is always
the mountains
and that’s
why we call
them friends
that’s my limit
and here’s the plane
now and the
town bump
EILEEN MYLES came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet, subsequently a novelist, public talker and art journalist. A Sagittarius, their twenty books include evolution (poems), Afterglow (a dog memoir), a 2017 re-issue of Cool for You, I Must Be Living Twice/new and selected poems, and Chelsea Girls. Eileen is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, four Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize from the PSA, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2016, Myles received a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. In 2019 they'll be teaching at NYU and Naropa University and they live in New York and Marfa, TX.