The Journey: Poems
By Anna Cates
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Anna Cates
Anna Cates is an adjunct professor of writing, literature, and education. She is the author of The Meaning of Life (2015), The Frog King (2015), The Darkroom: Poems (2017), The Golem & the Nazi (2019), The Journey (2020), Love in the Time of Covid (2021), and The Poison Tree: A Peace Play (2022).
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The Journey - Anna Cates
The Journey
Poems
Anna Cates
The Journey
Poems
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For Freddie, Fifi, & Tom Cat
God is the perfect poet.
—Robert Browning
Table of Contents
Title Page
Acknowledgements
Introduction
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
VENUS OF WILLENDORF
ATLANTIS
ACLLA
PI
AFTER
CHICKEN BINGO
GODS & FATE
LOVE & MYTH
TIME & BEING
THE TRIAL OF MITHRAS
ROMAN HOLIDAY
THEY DID NOT DANCE, NOR DID THEY SING
INVOCATION OF THE GODS
THE UNATTACHED
VIGNETTE
HASKALAH
BOOK OF THE DEAD
SACRED WORLD
THE ELUSIVE QUEST
THE SEEKER
MOVING ON
IN THE GARDEN
EXEGESIS ON GENESIS
THE FROG PRINCE
IN THE GARDEN
MEDUSA*
DELILAH
SIGN OF JONAH
MARTYRDOM
SMUG GLEE
ALTERNATIVE NEWS
STRANGER
A LITERARY PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
JUST MARRIED
OF OAKS AND BULLETS
QUESTION
JOHN
THE NATURE OF THE BEAST
THE GOLEM & THE NAZI
GYPSY
DEATH MARCHES
GOOD FRIDAY
SCRAWLINGS AFTER A DREAM
THE NATURE OF THE BEAST
RAPUNZEL
ONLY THE WICKED
THE JOURNEY
PILGRIM
THE UNVEILING
PANDORA’S BOX
MASQUERADE
PEDESTAL
JEHU ISLAND
HERE THERE BE DRAGONS
PROTOGE
ON PONY GIRLS AND GARGOYLES
ONLY THE WICKED (a rondeau)
CONFESSION
RAG DOLL (a villanelle)
THE NAKED ONION
BEHOLD THE WIZARD
FATHER
STATUS QUO
SOMBER MUSINGS
FLIGHT
THE HAPPY GUY
THE MEASURE
WHEN I AWAKE
WHERE THE BUTTERFLY ROAMS
THE APOCALYPSE
THE SECOND COMING
THE ESCHATOLOGIST
THE END
TUNDRA
THE EMPTY URN
NEVER DIE
TWILIGHT SERENITY twilight serenity settling deep inside the lobster- man’s pith
THE WEED-FILLED PATH
EPILOGUE
TAU
WHERE THE BUTTERFLY ROAMS
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to the editors of the publications in which these poems first appeared:
Scryptic: The Apocalypse,
The Frog Prince,
Tundra,
Never Die,
Where the Butterfly Roams,
Confession,
Jehu Island
Angry Old Man: Pi
Voice of Eve: Masquerade,
Medusa,
The Naked Onion,
Only the Wicked,
Ragdoll,
Pandora’s Box
(and a similar poem in Eucalypt)
Soft Cartel: Rapunzel
Anti-Heroin Chic: Pedestal
The Disappointed Housewife: Sign of Jonah
Otoliths: Atlantis,
On Pony Girls & Gargoyles,
The Seeker,
The Elusive Quest,
After,
Exegesis on Genesis,
Smug Glee
Mock Turtle: The Weed-Filled Path,
The Journey
Sheila-Na-Gig: Venus of Willendorf
Immanence: Aclla
Ibbetson Street: The Measure
Moon: The Empty Urn,
The Eschatologist
Bamboo Hut (a similar poem): The Unveiling
Al-Khemia Poetica: In the Garden
Blueline: Epilogue
Bleached Butterfly: Book of the Dead,
"Scrawlings after a