Fludde: Poems
By Peter Mishler and Dean Young
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Selected by Dean Young as winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Fludde draws on Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience to critique and dismantle contemporary American values and conditioning: commodification, imperialism, toxic masculinity. Surreal and satirical, Mishler channels the voices of disillusioned middle management alongside the freewheeling imaginative vision of children to disrupt the fixity of our received ideas.
Peter Mishler
Peter Mishler was born and raised in New Jersey. He earned a BFA in literature from Emerson College and both an MS in English Education and an MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University. He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and his work has appeared in Diagram, Black Warrior Review, Redivider, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, and the anthology Best New Poets 2013, among other places. Mishler curates a contemporary poetry interview series for Literary Hub. He lives in Kansas City.
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Fludde - Peter Mishler
OLD WORLD
I am collecting insects
from the ground
before the water table
turns on us again.
I am breathing in
the bread of the living
though my little ghosts
are in tune with what I take.
Let me not deceive you
first flowers of sacrilege:
I won’t go bawling
from the labyrinth,
my rashes and sores
handled wrongly.
The physician may rest
in his mountain.
The wefts and warps
of the globe may rest.
My love with her tongue
at the tip of the truncheon.
Me with my tongue
asleep at her hipbone.
A field of horses
disperse before
the revelling places
for monsters.
Let the beleaguered
return to their safes.
Let the dying
be returned to the sea.
Our failed hobbies burnt
in the rites of idiots.
Our carted rubble sits
in its fine anterior rage.
SUBLUNARY LIFE
The boy scouts lined up on the freezing banks
about to recite their summerland cheer.
In your bath it trickled down from your scalp
to your golden neck. The parts of me
that could see this were always blundering.
I laid them to rest in the heather
beside a half row of blue city shuttles.
They comfortably watch the semaphores
braiding the sky with silvery aircrafts
above the disengaged shallows. A dish
of its waters need not be drawn up for you.
Our bodies grew smaller when we made