Leash Of Joy
Poetry by:
ZAN DE PARRY
THREE POEMS
Zan De Parry lives in Philadelphia, his recent chapbook HENNIE, “A Creation Story,” is available through TABLOID Productions. Within these three short poems, we come to terms with De Parry’s unified poetics – a poetics of austere and resonant diction, with language that remains in the readers mouth long after the words leave. The audio accompaniment is a performance within itself, and a necessary component to the discovery of Zan’s work.Listen:
LEASH OF JOY
I'm stressful today
Tripped over an erect mop
Cut my hand very bad
Literally shifted the whole meat
Ran around the kitchen
Pouring very precious blood
Stood at a threshold and
Ma, am I okay?
I'd come out to a sky
In a fur coat
Broken-in by a thin soul
Can you imagine?
Listen:
MY DOG
plump
long hair
fangs
short legs
highway (former name)
reversible
like the back of a heart
erroneous
insecure
crying regularly
me and my dog would eat grass together
lie back and think
a bus could take us between towns
through town
even between states
and we go to sleep
dream about tracks
Listen:
AMERICA
I like the light smell of deer
The sounds of singing
I don't like crowds or clusters
My favorite place on the bus
The middle door, ear
To the bus middle door glass
Flaggers, before raising it
Hold it and blow it
Armstrong blew his to the moon
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Bio:
Zan de Parry lives in Philadelphia and has published the chapbooks Vibraphone (Brest Press), Hennie (Tabloid Presse), History, Memory, Love, America, Syllogism (Amateur Press) and co-wrote the full-length Austerity Brunch (Keith LLC) with Matthew Hodges. Other work can be found variously in print and online.
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Instagram: @keithllc
Soundcloud: @keithllc
Bio:
Zan de Parry lives in Philadelphia and has published the chapbooks Vibraphone (Brest Press), Hennie (Tabloid Presse), History, Memory, Love, America, Syllogism (Amateur Press) and co-wrote the full-length Austerity Brunch (Keith LLC) with Matthew Hodges. Other work can be found variously in print and online.
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EST 2020
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EST 2020
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© THE QUARTERLESS REVIEW ALL RIGHTS RESERVED