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Check out those Bossyboots

Originally Published: September 21, 2010

Three whimsical poems by Wayne Koestenbaum, "The Bitter Tears of Alexander Scriabin," "Archaic Awe," and "Dossier of Irretrievables" appear in the AWL's Poetry Section this week.  Here's a shot of Koestenbaum's spontaneity, or you can have a big gulp here:

"Archaic Awe"

My name is Bossyboots.
Liza Minnelli chose me for audience

participation guinea
pig. On a pad

I doodled
Fallopian detours. Later

Liza escaped on a daisy-
festooned tangerine

bike, handlebars
shrink-wrapped, while eating a water biscuit.