Poem Renaissance – jane putnam perry

Gyroscope Review is celebrating National Poetry Month with a Poem Renaissance, a review of previously published poems looking for new life and new views. Every day through May 20^th, a new poem to fall in love with all over again.

Propulsion
by jane putnam perry

the push pushing of paradox until it becomes folly a projection of inconsistency so far beyond quibbling as to be bull a propulsion of rigmarole until it becomes rant ejaculating romance throwing bombast flinging twaddle until it turns to fudge or rubbish or pure piffle

we toss trash shoot slipslop discharge flummery while calling it balderdash this is insanity rot tripe I want to throw things all the vagary and foolery and the mummery and monkey-tricks feel like darts a quarry so full of extravagance

Previously published in Indolent Books’ "Second Coming" Poem-A Day Protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House

jane putnam perry, guest on unceded Lisjan Territory (Oakland, CA), auntie, member of 1000 Grandmothers, writes and creates art to recognize harms done and alive and pathways to mend in the memoir White Snake Diary: Exploring Self-Inscribers (Atmosphere Press, 2020) and the academic book Outdoor Play: Teaching Strategies with Young Children (Teachers College Press, 2001). Her work has appeared in journals including Pensive, Blood Orange Review, The Mail/New Yorker, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Paper Dragon,and Still Point Arts Quarterly. jane’s “Echo Bridge” was a 2021 audio poetry finalist in The Missouri Review.janepperry.com.

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