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from Hearts Amok: a Memoir in Verse (audiobook edition) by Kevin Spenst

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A Goatherd’s Palaver Clackety-Clacks

And thus I see among these pleasant things,
Eche care decayes, and yet my sorrow springs.
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

In those Alpine times of youthful feelings,
our hearts yodeled blandishments of agony.
To make mores worse, I learned in church
that unless I paced a fine line following choice
Bible verses, I’d be dicing a bad-order to hell.
At fourteen, I prayed for the gaze of the new girl
whose mullet jostled like a rollercoaster.
I dreamt a Song of Solomon: her cheeks spun
like roller-skates in the Whalley Stardust,
her mascara as occluding as Phoenix Metaphysical
Books, her hair, a stage for heavy metal quakes
and pyroclastics. I sweated hours into drawing
her flowers of my affections. Prayers unanswered,
my soul slouched into an iron maiden forgery.

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from Hearts Amok: a Memoir in Verse (audiobook edition), released July 14, 2022
This was done by Synthcake. Walk your ears over to their music: synthcake.ca or here on Bandcamp: synthcakemusic.bandcamp.com/music

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Kevin Spenst Vancouver, British Columbia

Kevin Spenst is the author of the poetry collections Ignite, Jabbering with Bing Bong, and Hearts Amok: a Memoir in Verse (all with Anvil Press), and over a dozen chapbooks including Pray Goodbye, Ward Notes, Surrey Sonnets, and most recently Upend. He occasionally co-hosts Wax Poetic with RC Weslowski, on Co-op Radio. He lives in Vancouver on unceded Coast Salish territory. ... more