CAN YOU TELL A LINE FROM AN ODYSSEY Poems by Marek Lugowski ISBN 0-9723224-1-8 CONTENTS the silver goddess smiled and something melted copulating city lights feeling the leap over there dry counting marek's last stand, marek's last strand night driving in texas barbara and lupita of taos book shop joe's gift i always punch my timecard promptly on arrival taos plaza revisited at noon taos plaza before dawn, silence of taos plaza before dawn, the walk tailgated in texas why

Can You Tell a Line from an Odyssey is the newest chapbook from celebrated Chicago poet, Marek Lugowski. This collection of previously unpublished poetry explores Lugowski's 1988 road trip from Dallas to Taos and back again. Order your copy today for $6.50. For sales outside of the United States, please add $3.00 S&H. To pay with check or money order: Make payment of $6.50 out to Erin Elizabeth, and mail it to: Sundress Publications c/o Erin Elizabeth Smith 323 Oglewood Ave Knoxville TN 37917

the silver goddess smiled and something melted

michele is a silver goddess
what i mean is
she goddesses in silver
at ortega's, on the plaza
in santa fe

michele makes me blur
the line between
the hopi silver overlay
and her own surefooted elan
a confusion rooted
in juxtaposition
even if she's not wearing hopi
at the present time

michele has that dark-beautiful
hair and
those soft-beautiful lines
her manner is friendly
her friendliness
unmannered

i would wrap my hands
around michele
if only halfway

allowed

i may be

in doubt
daring
sacrilegious
or simply impolite but
i am hers

at least in part
and
of fitness at least 900

michele may thus goddess
in me
but if she chooses to do so
would she wear me

out