Poet of the Month (2a)

My favorite poem so far is "Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain" by Richard Brautigan. The poem is playful, charming, and humorous. Also, it has an interesting format (a stanza acts as a "report card"). 

I found another poem by Richard Brautigan titled "The Double-Bed Dream Gallows" that I copied into my Moleskine. I especially like Brautigan's reference to the "leading women's magazine." He incorporates social commentary into a short poem.

The Double-Bed Dream Gallows

By Richard Brautigan

Driving through   

hot brushy country

the late autumn,   

I saw a hawk

crucified on a

barbed-wire fence.

I guess as a kind   

of advertisement   

to other hawks,   

saying from the pages

of a leading women’s   

   magazine,

“She’s beautiful,

but burn all the maps   

to your body.

I’m not here

of my own choosing.”