Matthew Dickman said and laughed. "This is starting to feel like a mythological story, but anyway, Michael's was reading Neruda, and mine was reading Anne Sexton. I thought maybe if I wrote something, she'd take her shirt off ... I know, that's been the motive for centuries. I know." Michael Dickman went to the mall and bought "The Captain's Verses" by Pablo Neruda and was blown away. He read it twice and wrote some imitation Neruda, which didn't work on that particular girl but got him started down the road that never ends.
[by Dorianne Laux]
Savages
Those two shelves, down there.
--Adrienne Rich
For Matthew, Mike, Michael and Carl
from Jeff Baker: The Oregonian: Northwest writers at work: The poetry posse
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