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There is a Naked Man

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  • Publisher : Main Street Rag Publishing Company
  • Publish Date : October 18, 2016
  • ISBN : 978-1-59948-236-1

These poems all feature the naked man (except those that feature the naked woman), who manages to find himself (and herself) in all manner of situations.

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All the pieces in this long chapbook of poems introduce and feature the naked man (except those that feature the naked woman). The naked man has a real talent for finding himself in all manner of situations, some that will be familiar to readers, others that will not. It is important to note that the naked man poems are not biographical and that there is very little physical nudity in the naked man poems. One indication of the kind of nakedness that occurs most often in this book is the epigraph from Zen Master, Kosho Uchiyama: “You have to open your eyes to your present reality and start off with a totally naked self…” Another indication is the cover design, a piece of original artwork by Emily Lupita Plum.

Sample Poem

Sample Poem

DRIVEWAY

There is a naked man
backing his pickup
past a sugar maple
that has been growing
in the same spot
for hundreds of years

past a juniper
that grew its first berries
the exact moment
Buddha sat down
under the Bodhi Tree

past a stone slab
that traveled across
three galaxies
and assembled itself right
where it landed, fueled
with starlight and cooling
in perfect tune

past a stairway
rising to a porch
decked with timbers
Jesus walked on once
and stilled the waters

and into the garage
where nothing much happens
to mice rummaging
through corners, crickets
mating and dying, comets
colliding, sending up
columns of dust and ice
on winds too subtle
to feel, too faint
to hear and invisible
to all but the naked eye.

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