Drops of Rain  /  Drops of Wine

Patrick James Dunagan

 

ISBN  978-1-941550-99-1     $15.00        114 pages

                       /

        eyes

     a world

              yet beyond

    awaits hearing

 

knocks the page

                        brings

                      sky

                   to hand

 

                            an answer

 

there is no

answer

 

nothing’s forgotten

      . . .      forgiven

      . . .      left

 

only movement lasts

Patrick James Dunagan lives in San Francisco and works at Gleeson Library for the University of San Francisco. A graduate of the Poetics program from the now-defunct New College of California he’s currently helping to edit an anthology of critical writings by Poetics program alumni and faculty. He also edited and wrote the introduction for poet Owen Hill's A Walk Among the Bogus (Lavender Ink). His essays and book reviews appear frequently with a wide number of both online and print publications. His most recent books include: “There are people who think that painters shouldn't talk”: A Gustonbook (Post Apollo), Das Gedichtete (Ugly Duckling), and from Book of Kings (Bird and Beckett Books).