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A selection of poems from FALL & ALL Book 2

Fall & All  copyright 2000, 2019 by Dave Roskos.

Book 2 (Take 2)

Some of the poems in Fall & All have been published in Arbella,

The Black Swan Review, Big Scream, Big Hammer, Casino Anthology, Home Planet News, The Home News Tribune, The Daily Observer, New Jersey Bowel & Bladder Control, Elephant, The Paterson Literary Review, Blue Collar Review,  Dionysus–The Journal of Literature and Addiction, LUMMOX, Without Halos, Working Hard for the Money  (Bottom Dog Press, Working Lives Series), in the 2016 CAT IN THE SUN PRESS edition of LYRICAL GRAIN, DOGGEREL CHAFF, & PEDESTRIAN PREOCCUPATIONS (LGDC&PP).

& online in POETS on the line , & Napalm Health Spa.

  I’d like to thank the editors of these publications for their commitment to small press publishing.

This is the 2019 print-on-demand second edition of this book.

Around 300 copies of a xeroxed/saddle-stapled 28 page chapbook were published in 2000. One poem from that edition has been omitted from this version; six poems from that time period (mid 90s to early 00s) have been added. One poem from 1986 (“Veterans”) is reprinted from my first chapbook The Energy of the Flesh (1989), to keep the laundromat poems together. “Early Morning Suicides” is from my fifth chapbook INTENSIVE CARE (Black Rabbit Press, 2010). A later version of early morning suicides appears in LGDC&PP as “a blessing & a curse.”  “These Tomatoes Have Life In Them” was written in 1983 & is reprinted from Without Halos #1.

The book review by Donald Lev, used here  as a forward, is reprinted from Home Planet News #48 (2002).

Long Live Donald Lev! Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books PO Box 906, Island Heights, NJ 08732-0906 iniquitypress(at)hotmail.com

  This book is for Ayler.

the moon is defunct as an image in poetry — drained of significance, played. oh moon, swoon in a spoon at noon. Moon! full or quartered. Moon! 2 of them cupped in my wife’s brassiere Moon! melted down & shot up by junkies. (rubber gloved dishwashers w/ moons in their hair nets) Moon! halved or in eighths like marijuana weighed & bagged to be sold. Moon! lamented & lost, & at what cost? the whole of the sky. (3/11/98) broke open a moon poured its milk in the radiator hundred dollars worth of gas in two 50 gallon tanks a cargo of constellations we put it in drive & drove over state lines & across borders gleefully giving toll collectors the last of our quarters paying for groceries w/ broadsides of out-of-print Maxwell Bodenheim poems, lecturing state troopers on the significance of Wm Carlos Williams, the importance of needle exchange programs in the schools, discussions about addiction, its treatment as a disease & decriminalization of narcotics &, therefore, addicts. where to end a poem like this, and how. 1/1/99 ORIZABA! I the sea which fed him his livelihood swallowed him whole foot caught in the rigging of the lobster nets overboard like Hart Crane ORIZABA! II Hart Crane eaten by sharks; poem-circled. scent of blood & bone– not very lyrical, not much music in it. Cinquain for A New World

Of Love. Spiritual U- Nity. Nurture a Child’s Heart & Mind, in ourselves & our Children. “Fall & All: Book 2” can be purchased on Amazon.

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