by
Jeanne Marie Beaumont
American
Poets Continuum Series
Curious are the workings
of history and governments, the relations between the sexes, the
behavior of animals, the life of objects, the labors of art, and
the transformations of the imagination. In exploring these
subjects, Jeanne Marie Beaumont's poems pursue and develop their
own mode of investigation, a way into their subjects whether it
be by interrogation, time travel, anthropomorphism or other conducive
strategies. Employing a range of poetic forms and devices
including anaphora, acrostic, dramatic monologue, and the prose
poem, Jeanne Marie Beaumont's Curious Conduct depicts
a restless aesthetic alert to the various opportunities that the
poetic tradition present to explore experience.
History's
Memory
Devil
pulled the string end.
Oars
break the clouded waters.
Objects
retrieved by shape and scent.
March
step of the unknown soldiers.
Elevation
for gathering a "big picture."
Ditches
to bury your troubles in.
Tangled
webs of the oft-deceivers.
Orifice
hiding the weepers' den.
Rags
for recycling into uniforms.
Elephant
foot-trails toward extinction.
Pearls
of unrequited wisdom.
Empires—see
under: follies, broad thumbs.
Attacks
on itself from grizzled pundits.
Tempests
dizzying the inverted kingdoms.
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