Sea Snails on a Black Chow’s Tongue: Or, a Castaway’s Poems in a Bottle
At the conclusion of Keith Harvey’s novel, “Cave Gossip,” the protagonist recites an aphorism: being in being is. “Sea Snails on a Black Chow’s Tongue” explores the meaning of this aphorism. The poems in this collection, then, deal with man’s basic aloneness in being; a castaway, if you will, in his own existence.
Poet
He sat and read
his primal poems
on a wooden stool
carved from pine.
His lips purpled
as he scanned
primordial words
and his tongue
shadowed
like a chow’s.

- Hardcover, Paperback, Digital: 120 pages
- Published: 2009
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