THE COVER OF ROBERT DUNCAN'S SELECTED POEMS(1997)

Those massive white sideburns!

Like some self-satisfied enormous cat

or Michael Douglas playing vampire

in a box office flop, he

looks to us from the cover

we find difficult to open. There

is some odd, discomforting echo

of life (dry and dusty, fading)

in those long-gone squinting eyes

targeting something forever unknown.

26.11.2017