POETASTER

About the Book

If you waddle like a weasel

that you out-witted

out of wood

take caution of the cougar

casing captives twice as good.

If you whale as wanting waxwing

happy whang when wrong

be thrifty:

note weathercock to weevil

citing sing sing in your song.

For endangered pika inching

above threatened clouds

are weary

of burrowing cicadas

waking foes while calling pals.

Dale Benjamin Drakeford, Poetaster.

Dale Benjamin Drakeford, Poetaster.

About the Author

With this book of poetry you will need to pay attention. It is deeper than the usual bowl of soup.-Joseph Granda-Padron, Chef.

?From the archives, ?Dale B. Drakeford writes, Spy the latent to explicit moves enjoyed by educators?Watch who?s handcuffing who in the empty holding cell. Could Allen Ginsberg have said it better?? (Rolling Stone, May 4, 1995, Issue 707, p. 16). Perhaps Ginsberg could have said it better, but in this current collection Drakeford handcuffed the cell full of ingenuous ideals. He kisses the forehead as he slaps the cheek. The great American experiment and literate nation morality are called to account. The referenced poem ends with its title, It is strangely now, not a pending doom, nor a question of substance or who teaching whom. In this work Drakeford is teaching and the reader is jailed into learning. The questions just keep pouring at you until you are drenched?submerged in your own truth and there is no place to go but the surface.?-Anonymous Poetaster.

The writing gave me too much to say, and now I am as a student at a lost for words. I am moved to be too conscious of them and the rest beats that punctuate our conversation, behavior and Drakeford?s poetry. The words of the textbook cancer that breaks through the guarded shell to the soft side, the complex to simple side, the outside to the inside, the casualties and ever evolving social circles that can leave you dry as it quenches your thirsts. -Adrienne Moore, Teacher