Orion's Belt at the End of the Drive

By Pat Williams Owen

"Pat Owen is that rare poet who witnesses the divine in actually-lived lives—in wrinkles and cafés, otters and baseball, vulvas and ferns. Here is a music as attentive and tender as the practitioner’s Zazen-breath, and like the Zazen master, here is a tenderness that is hard, sharp, quick. Set in the dangerous ecosystem o

• Language: English
• Publisher: Accents Publishing, LLC
• Release date: Feb 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781936628766

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Copyright © 2019 by Pat Williams Owen

All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America

Accents Publishing

Editor: Katerina Stoykova

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019933965

ISBN: 978-1-936628-47-6

ISBN: 978-1-936628-76-6 (e-book)

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CONTENTS

Orion’s Belt at the End of the Drive

Old Fashioned Child Portrait

Blood

Against the Backdrop

Human-Tender

Single Gentleman

Marriage of Academics

The Poetry Critique

The Creature

The Tin Man

The Discipline of the Dancer

Asperger Musician

Small Gestures

The Wild Raw Green of Kentucky

The Peruvian Zumba Teacher

Completion

My Dentist

To Be Female

Cervix

A Young Lesbian Couple

Middle-Aged Couple

Old Flame

Wrinkles

Longing for Hale-Bopp

Ink

Confirmation

Unattainable

Refrain

At Cross Country Meet

From My Porch in the High Rise

Summer Solstice II

The Otter

Pedestrians

Cave Hill Once Again

Self-Care

Meditations on the Vietnam Wall

College Baseball Team on the Plane

Boarding School at