The Inanity of Music & Wings

In his eagerly awaited poetic debut, Zachary Michael Jack takes his readers on mind-bending, mytho-poetic travels from modern-day rural Mexico to the American Great Plains of the early century and back again. Employing an unlikely list of dramatis persona

Dramatis Personae

1

(4)

I.

How good it was, just then, to hear Elvis's high wail

5

(2)

Esperanza arrives to silence in the sprawling

7

(1)

Last night, my first in the mission

8

(1)

Days when I fight off sleep like Bear, I promise myself

9

(1)

Because I helped you down with it, Diego, Father

10

(1)

The mask of Juan Orta, maestro, bleeds from its eyes

11

(2)

I read to stave off cravings. Bird thins the clouds

13

(1)

The big-haired man at the corner table (rumored)

14

(1)

All along the street---cars our fathers bought us

15

(1)

Bird on the motif of lemons

16

(3)

II.

Bird on what must be broken

19

(1)

Back home, Grandfather falls. Except in pictures

20

(2)

Bird on somnambulism

22

(1)

Interlude for love and mortification

23

(5)

The woman, Dr. Perez asks, indicating Esperanza

28

(1)

As it is necessary for the physician to possess perfect

29

(1)

Last night in the cosmic silence glassblowers say exists

30

(1)

One learns not to ask certain things

31

(1)

For the first time I find the cold invigorating

32

(1)

The moon, long-mustachioed and lashed, are the sun

33

(1)

All day the twin brothers swap chainsaw parts

34

(3)

Conquistador: a masquerade in four parts

37

(4)

Bird on lesser gods

41

(1)

Tonight, at the Hotel Fiesta, I shall shine with mescal

42

(1)

Christ in the square touches them like a flower

43

(1)

We are always more or less in love with the Musician

44

(2)

By dusk my breath comes in rushes. I am triumphant

46

(1)

Bird on other worlds

47

(3)

Interlude for love and arms

50

(3)

The web frames the lime with its perfect garland

53

(1)

After Diego reclaimed his basketball---retreating

54

(1)

Diego's voice, the first time heard outside the mission

55

(1)

Smoke appears against the mountain

56

(1)

Bird on Fisher Kings

57

(3)

Interlude for love and espionage

60

(4)

Bird opposing Middle America

64

(3)

III.

Bird with twenty questions

67

(1)

I would want for the thunder to echo, for my family

68

(1)

The retired general still wears his fatigues

69

(1)

Only lovers in the churchyard warm the face of death

70

(1)

Though it frightens me, the bees slide in the white folds

71

(2)

About the author

73

(2)

About the publication

75

(2)

Notes

77

(2)

Bird afterword

79

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