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| Dennis Daly |
Dennis
Daly lives in Salem, Massachusetts. Daly graduated from Boston College and has
an MA in English Literature from Northeastern University. He published two
earlier books of poetry: Custom House (Ibbetson Street Press) and Night Walking
with Nathaniel (Dos Madres). His
translation of Sophocles’ Ajax (Wilderness House Press) was recently performed
in Saratoga Springs, New York under the sponsorship of the classics and drama
departments of Skidmore College. Among other jobs Daly has worked as a dockworker,
Union Leader of a 9000 member industrial local, newspaper columnist, city
department head, and community corrections director. His new book of poetry,
Sentinel, was just released by Red Dashboard Publishing. Visit his blog at
dennisfdaly.blogspot.com.
Blowback
Nosing
around one of the helix
Bands,
searching for enhanced wonderment
On
the cavern walls. The gloomy Styx
Flows
foully by in chalky current.
Other
keen images disturb there
Among
the genes of our brother apes.
Paraded
inside, an incised mare
Of
consciousness and pigmented shapes,
Roughly
etched art. Withdrawing sunward
From
the bleakness of interior,
Charon’s
feverish blue eyes bestirred,
He
oars us across the dread water.
Back
in the etherized, upper land
We
recognize the dead among us,
Traverse
the known shortcuts, the quicksand
Of
feral dreams, of life’s fullness.
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