Drawing On Life
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Mason Drukman’s collection—augmented by the artistry of Lisa Esherick—offers a fresh poetic voice that speaks with intelligence, clarity, humor and heart. His subject matter is life itself: culture, politics, family, death, grief, love and the Red Sox. Welcome to his special kind of poetry.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Some beautiful language, cover ... some of my favorites (with my most favorite being Still Life):An American Family*An Eye for TasteOne Eye for Survival*Balance RockShipping NewsIn my dream thoughtsRainy Day Rumblings*It wasn't a "bad" collection, but one that I can't say I "enjoyed", because even though there were repeating themes, I felt a little all over the place because the collection didn't seem to feel "thematic", or pulled together by a single thread. (Maybe due to poem arrangement)
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Drawing On Life - Mason Drukman
Drawing on Life
Poems
Mason Drukman
FomiteContents
An American Family
An Eye for Taste
Dressed to Kill
Uncle Harry
I Know What You Mean, Ivan Karamazov
Bob
I’m Driving Dave Dellinger
The Lady
Snow Geese in the Berkeley Pit
Things Fall
One Eye for Survival
The Freelancer
The New Old Math
Political Theory (for Matt Stolz)
Incubation
Father, 1989
Red Car
Gin
Sally
Balance Rock
The Baseball Lesson
Who’s Afraid in the Dark
Safe Havens
Come to Jamaica
She Could Have Been Right
Switchback
On the Sundial Bridge
Way After Sappho
Isidor Wright
Loma Prieta
Birth of the Blues
Shipping News
Weekend Pass
He Didn’t Come
In my dream thoughts
Kidneys
The Watsu Water Massage
Norman Jacobson
Awakening
Ice
The Lobsterman
Seeing/Unseen
Why Didn’t You Call?
P.S. Do You Read Me?
Anomie
Whose Woods
Rainy Day Rumblings
David Carlson’s Quantum Quartet
ALL
Goodbye
. . . for Sore Eyes
Still Life
The Grief Group
A Conversation
Mechanical Disadvantage
Getting in Touch
Once My Moon
Note
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Artist
For Sam
I miss you.
An American Family
the white birch sits where it belongs
snugged within its shining family
on the shore of the Merrimack
a sister tree stands on the opposite coast
blazing whiteness against
the uncertain red of cold-snapped sequoias
the Billerica summer house
a mordant aroma of faded woodwork
emptied rooms in dead-leaf brown
the Miami daughter
who can no longer stand
sits in her wheelchair
under a beetling
waiting for help
her New England sister
leans out toward the parking lot
of her subsidized apartment
her Chevy wagon
buried in snow
the brother in Georgia
reclines on his sectional
both feet on the hassock
flipping the remote
trying to remember
the father who smoked
two packs a day
sometimes three
windows closed tight
in his cobalt De Soto
baby brother
younger than he used to be
dials long distance
no message left
and no one rings up in return
mama’s gone missing
she stands in the woods
by a dying birch
unable to see
through cross-hatched glasses
the eldest son
refuses to be in this poem
an undomesticated redwood
blockades his back yard
obstructing our view of his life
An Eye for Taste
like a platypus under water
he eats with eyes shut
the better to focus on the essence of the fare
every crumb of Panko
every shred of saffron
every molecule of rose water
and after dessert
dilates on what he’s ingested
takes pleasure in listing the ingredients
in seldom missing one or
mistaking one for another
his eyes are also closed when he sings
an Irish tenor with red hair wearing dark glasses
at a Sears Roebuck upright
crooning not the cèilidh melodies
or step-dance ditties of the Old Sod
but the ballads of McCartney and Lightfoot and
medleys of folk tunes and klezmer laments
in the ICU his eyes never close
as far as anyone can see
alone of the nurses
he wears shades indoors
against regulations
the only male on the shift
a giant among women
his large body moving nimbly his voice
a humming accompaniment to the