Tableau with Crash Helmet

by Bill Christophersen

Overview

Poetry. This book "is full of haunting extended metaphors and a pervasive sense of the metaphysical found even in the most seemingly casual situations...."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781934909508
Publisher:	Hanging Loose Press
Publication date:	05/01/2018
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Bill Christophersen is a former editor at Newsweek and has taught at Fordham and CUNY. He holds a doctorate from Columbia. Bill is also a traditional and blue grass fiddler.

Table of Contents

Nocturne 7

The Vortices of Descartes

New York Minute 11

Wet Snow 12

The Dentist Lady 13

Disappearing 14

U.S. 80 West 16

The Orange Door 19

The Vortices of Descartes? 20

The Reds of Spring 21

Signalman 22

Zen Redbud Haiku 23

Know Your Clients 25

Rebarbative 26

Community Garden 27

Absolute Bagel 28

Pastorale 29

"Who Is My Neighbor?" 30

Tunesmith 31

The Vortices of Descartes 33

Long Beach Island Haiku 35

Because Time and Tide Wait for No Man-of-War 37

Wind Sock 38

Spanghewing by Moonlight 40

The Famished Cat 42

Dialogue of Head and Heart 44

Compound Eye 45

Cogito Ergo Sum? 46

Tableau with Crash Helmet

Street Scene 49

New Year's Day Meditation outside Apple Tree Grocers: 1 50

Puberty 51

Traffic Light 53

Bus Depot Haiku 55

Intersection 56

New Year's Day Meditation outside Apple Tree Grocers: 2 57

Answering a Question in the Mountains 58

Zen and the Art of Shopping 60

Oriental Zodiac 62

The Cutting Edge 65

Wine in Small Bottles 66

New Year's Day Meditation outside Apple Tree Grocers: 3 67

Focusing 68

Memories of Dental Work 69

Fall Haiku 73

New Year's Day Meditation outside Apple Tree Grocers: 4 74

Encountering Stentor during the Feast of Trumpets 75

Alta Sierra 78

The Newlyweds 79

New Year's Day Meditation outside Apple Tree Grocers: 5 80

Keep the Home Fries Burning 81

Ugly Hat 82

Channeling the Deserted Apartment 83

New Year's Day Meditation outside Apple Tree Grocers: 6 84

Tableau with Crash Helmet 85

Down the Brae 88

Brokedown Gambler 91

New Year's Day Meditation outside Apple Tree Grocers: 7 93

Red Shift 94

Fear of Flying 95

Three Stores Down 96

Variation on a Theme by Emily D. 97

The Sound of Snow 98

New Year's Day Meditation outside Apple Tree Grocers: 8 99

Bocce Players 100

Notes 101

Acknowledgments 103