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    The Making of a Key
    The Making of a Key
    The Making of a Key
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    The Making of a Key

    By Dustin Drennen

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    This is a book of poems and songs. Oh, I threw in a cocktail recipe of my own invention toward the end. Maybe look at that first, mix the drink, have a seat, and start reading. I can't promise much. Very subjective stuff here; however, the drink recipe is top-notch. Read the poems, sing the songs, drink the drink, then let me know how you feel.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateSep 27, 2018
    ISBN9780359119721
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      The Making of a Key - Dustin Drennen

      DEDICATION

      To my wife, who indulges and encourages me in all of my strange ways.

      PREFACE

      My thoughts on this volume are few. I’d prefer it to speak for itself. If I have one objection, it is that my poems don’t display enough of my sense of humor. For that reason, I’ve included the following insight, a recent reflection of mine. I only hope you can take me seriously hereafter.

      To keep a book of poetry in the bathroom seems like ghastly behavior. But, I do. I read more poetry because of it. In fact, I find there is no better time to entertain my senses with this superb art form.

      I am amused at the thought that someone may someday read my most intimate observations of life and self while on the toilet. I’ve also considered the objections of other poets, some dead. What might they think if they knew (and perhaps some do) I read their work from the most humble of seats?

      I’ve read poetry in all the right places: on moonlit nights, on mountains, in the first glimmer of sunlight that chases the morning chill out of the meadow. I’ve read to myself, to my children, to women, into a microphone, aloud in a circle, even while I danced and flailed. These days, I favor reading quietly while I relieve myself.

      I look forward to daily meeting with mentors and fellow poets. I do apologize for summoning them in my bathroom. It should not be considered any indication of the value I place on their work.

      -D. July 12th, 2018; Clark Fork, ID

      A PRAYER

      Keep my heart

      a tender organ,

      back upright and strong,

      hands working out some good thing,

      mind filed to a point and piercing mysteries,

      face set hard,

      like flint,

      Toward my purpose.

      SPIRITS

      The door rests open

      My floors, clean swept

      All the lights glow

      An invitation

      My house is ripe

      With song

      And merry-making

      THE NAMES

      Out of the inkwell,

      And like a cat clawing,

      I pray the names:

      Six I love,

      Five other than myself,

      Four, the names of my children.

      It’s been three days,

      I think.

      There are two calendar dates I would change

      And one name I hate.

      Not the one

      you think.

      -Strange what we hate

      Consumes

      us, defines

      us as much as what we love.

      Yet, indifference is not freedom,

      only the absence of feeling.

      CHANGEOVER

      this place is

      dark & light

      I am Jeckyll

      & I am Ulysses

      Transformation,

      insufficient time

      for small talk

      ANNEAL

      Forged,

      Muscles, sinews, and joints,

      New fired and quenched.

      I stretch over the earth

      Cooling to ambient temperature.

      In the red-yellow gradient of daybreak

      I try my form,

      Singular as a tiger,

      Unrivaled in my way.

      Doomed and gleaming

      I go.

      TRAIN

      Rolling through a dark

      corridor of evergreens

      The moon, she flickers

      Like a failing fluorescent

      Still, pale and charming

      I am at ease beneath her.

      Then, the belly of

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