THE DINNER JACKET POEMS the CHANTILCLEER POET JEFF WAYNE-PATRICK
RUSSELL Jeff Wayne-Patrick Russell aka the Chantilcleer poet starts
his Dinner Jacket Poems with a boyhood visit to his grandmother's
apartment in Glendale, CA where he's fascinated by the
Knockittttty, knock knocks of woodpeckers pecking on telephone
poles in her neighborhood. With "yells of silence" he takes us on a
quest to the "streets of Gold" where he "dreams of a Coliseum in
Eternity." The pilgrim does not travel alone. There are desert
paths to be sure where "a snake slithers past the moon, leaving
them both to crawl home to caves and holes." But there are also
Happy Hour epiphanies where a margarita dancer shares with him a
glimpse of her beauty and moments of "sarcastic bliss among friends
over a' good-beer." There are times the quester needs to be in
solitude: "And if you want to talk to me Find me In person Maybe
Australia" There are times he seeks solidarity with a significant
other: "ohhhhhhhh Lord your girllllllllllllllllllllll - for...
meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" When she's found and "Reeling and rocking as
our flame grows - higher than others" he leads "Make our flame
last." My favorite poem of his near the end of the book is ME...AND
DECIBEL TETON...where "lying on a stone" he drinks from a cactus
and with gaze fixed upon a spiraling hawk pleads "Hawk, stay long,
Hawk, stay long Hawk circling, Circling Hawk Return me to myself."
I couldn't agree more.
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