The Mean Doors
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"The Mean Doors" is P. M. Leiby's third book of poetry, preceded by "Goodbye, The Unused Portion of Hello," and "A Boy Swept Under the Rug." P. M. Leiby brings to bear a love of life and death encoded in the social and mental struggles. He holds an M.S. in psychology from Purdue University.
Paul Mason Leiby, Jr
Paul Mason Leiby Jr is the author of nine experimental poetry books: "Lofi My Life," "Sleeping Every Sycamore Standing," "How the Bakery Pronounces Drab," "Of the Body Air," "They Walked Until Autumn," "Goodbye, the Unused Portion Hello," and others. P. M. Leiby brings to bear a love of life and death encoded in the social and mental struggles. He holds an M.S. in psychology from Purdue University.
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The Mean Doors - Paul Mason Leiby, Jr
The Mean Doors
Paul Mason Leiby Jr
Copyright © 12/8/2021 Paul Mason Leiby Jr
All rights reserved.
DEDICATed to
Shagufta and family,
and my family
CONTENTS
What other conclusion
Hearsay
White dirt
Bear spray
Our pale stone faces
Magnolia spades
Police tape
The thing I just did
Jungle colors
Secret society
Grave-spitting
Editing god
Valhalla seagulls
The mean doors
Alphabetized cemeteries
Manticore
Signs of life
Rain dancing
Surgical greed
Methuselah veins
Heterodox sleep
Little blue marble
I am just a squatter
Macho roadway
Bread crumbed daylight
What Other Conclusion
There’s a caravan of wind heading
non-dimensional west to the smoke-rammed sun
in the polluted rain eye.
Looking up to the gated community of the sky
makes me feel