David Dodd Lee

DAVID DODD LEE

More Pleasant Adventures

The ice
             started to show
             and suddenly you are interested
                                                in
           Happiness

the word
                 or story
a sentimental journey             a sentimental
                                                  layer of
                      change
                      some tennis court
we get lost in
                          but nowhere we can be found

No Two Alike

Wait—I am
                      overreacting,
                                              scars
              of                             slow defeat

spent propped        against
                                                     bread

                         Then the world
             got
                    calmer, as
                                      though some big man
had
        turned
                                      people into
a patina

                What matters     is
        the
                                               ministering
        of
                          cover

  the whole
                    polluting remembrance
         where I
                            was born a curious
rage
          after long love
                                      wears out.

Unfit to Stand Trial

A beautiful
   new smell                                                  is
        in               pharmacies.

Each passing bird                        shivers
at                             all the things we've created--

                              opinions
                               fire engines
                               softball games--

                                                         we don't
                                                         deserve.

More Pleasant Adventures, from A Wave
No Two Alike, from April Galleon
Unfit to Stand Trial, from Quick Question

David Dodd Lee's Animalities (Four Way Books) was published in 2014. Unlucky Animals, a collection that includes original poems, collages, erasures and dictionary sonnets, was published in April, 2020. He is the author of ten books of poems and his artwork has been featured in three one-person exhibitions since 2014. Recent artwork has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, The Hunger, The Rumpus, and Twyckenham Notes. In 2016 he began making sculpture, most of which he installs on various public lands, surreptitiously. He lives on the St. Joseph River and Associate Professor of English at Indiana University South Bend where he is Editor-in-Chief of 42 Miles Press.