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TVBC
“Marc Awodey writes with mesmerizing
intensity. His poems are passionate displays of cadence and
rhythm; swirls of drunken, expanding metaphor, all artfully
choreographed within an elegant framework of stories. Telegrams
from the Psych Ward resonates with one of the most original
poetic voices I’ve encountered in years.” —Catherine A. Salmons,
literary critic, The Boston Phoenix
MARC AWODEY is
a former instructor at Burlington College who now writes poetry
full-time. He has published two collections of poetry, Telegrams
from the Psych Ward and Other Poems in 2000 and New York:
A Haibun Journey in 2003. His work has appeared worldwide in a number of
publications, including Humanitas, Plainsong, Midwest
Poetry Review, Portland Review, Writer’s Journal,
and Lexicon. Awodey, who holds an MFA
from Cranbrook Academy of Art,
is also an award-winning art critic, an accomplished visual
artist, and the 2000
Poetry Slam Nationals “head to head” Haiku Champion.
He lives in Burlington, VT, with his
family. Click
here to check out New York: A Haibun Journey at
Amazon.com.
Songs
/ Marc Awodey
Let us speak of birth
for a quiet change
for I heard the airy utterances
of a crested cardinal shielded
under foliage today.
Its speech was berry red.
Its ribbon of whistling streamed
over triangles of morning shade
signaling to a lover perhaps
above layers of whispering leaves.
I did not see its scarlet
but I heard its succulent color
and timbre in my complicated wood
clear over the staccato babble
of less luminous birds.
All of the nesting races
dangled in arboreal mobiles
now squirming full of hatchling mouths
delicately beaked and tongued
woven shrewdly together with songs.
—TVBR Issue #15: Vol.
VI, No. 2—The Mad
Poets
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