Jack Spicer poems up at poetrymagazine.org

Saw the post over at Silliman's blog and thought I'd put it here for my own future reading:

http://www.poetrymagazine.org/search_author.html?query=6473

I've always admired Spicer's bizarre concept of composition, and I do enjoy reading his work occasionally.

Here's my favorite of the poetrymagazine bunch:

"Any fool can get into an ocean..."

by Jack Spicer

Any fool can get into an ocean

But it takes a Goddess

To get out of one.

What's true of oceans is true, of course,

Of labyrinths and poems. When you start swimming

Through riptide of rhythms and the metaphor's seaweed

You need to be a good swimmer or a born Goddess

To get back out of them

Look at the sea otters bobbing wildly

Out in the middle of the poem

They look so eager and peaceful playing out there where the

water hardly moves

You might get out through all the waves and rocks

Into the middle of the poem to touch them

But when you've tried the blessed water long

Enough to want to start backward

That's when the fun starts

Unless you're a poet or an otter or something supernatural

You'll drown, dear. You'll drown

Any Greek can get you into a labyrinth

But it takes a hero to get out of one

What's true of labyrinths is true of course

Of love and memory. When you start remembering.