The Grave of the Great Alley of Clarity Cats is an anthology of poetry written by Mike Giardina, originally prepared as a thesis in creative writing, at the University of California, Davis. Please enjoy these experiments in abstract, postmodern poetry.
 

Even during–even if it during

Popovich pushed past pastel where
Friday’s palate the taste of plastic on cloth
damp paper left folded the crowd in cubicles
along the rails my thighs reached out drying close
a glove to the hand in lines of ladies with cigarettes
charcoal stiffening between a charge wired
to a pen doctor swelling lips slit kissing on her porch
the albino pooch its skin torn like a glove up and
into the canal where she started the water running
in the sink hair stretching into the greyhound’s teeth
its skin risking the impact it had taken

 
This poem originally appeared in The Grave of the Great Alley of Clarity Cats, an anthology of poetry written by Mike Giardina. The complete the anthology is available below:

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