Mr Rogers Kills Fruit Flies Scott Ferry Main Street Rag 2020 53 pages $13 978-1-59948-825-7 Scott Ferry is a poet of lengthy breath and a surreal logic, used to reveal the intricacies of a mind gently turned on itself. The book is divided into three sections: Mr. Rogers kills fruit flies; how to cross eyelid bridge; Divination by; each with its own character and concerns. Early in the first section, narrated by historical figures in unusual situations, Ferry stopped my poetry-musing--that pleasant state wherein one thumbs the book lovingly, looking for the good word--with the beginning lines of 'Joseph Campbell dreams of war.' It started in the bathroom, mirror etched in ice, the razor's rhetoric on jawline tearing up trees and children, and here in my home! But I cannot leave Jean unbeknown on the lanai. I look to the East, there is a mountain of bodies skinned bare like antelope. In the crater their identities cave in, obtund. The lava waves fragrant like hibiscus a...
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