Everything
is possible
I
was watching this film by Quentin Tarantino.
It
starred Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
Maybe
it was by Martin Scorcese.
Anyway,
it was that predictable kind of crazy.
The
women were beautiful, but didn’t have much to do.
Mostly
they got emotional with Robert or Al.
They
weren’t treated particularly well.
They
took their clothes off, as women often do.
It
was Michael Mann! Mann’s the man you want if you want manly.
Al
and Robert are manly, though not so very tall.
Al’s
hardly there at all.
At
the end, everyone was shooting insanely.
Women
took off their clothes more than they put them on.
It’s
the movies, where this is possible.
I’m
thinking of buying a convertible.
I’ll
cruise fashionable streets with the top down.
Beside
me is a beautiful woman in a blue dress.
Her
beautiful head nods yes, yes.
Everything
is possible. We are so alive.
It
goes on and on as long as we drive.
What
a delight to find this cruisy, insouciant poem in the latest issue of
Landfall. It's there by virtue of winning the 2013 Caselberg Trust
International Poetry Competition. I met up with Tim while I was in
Palmerston North being a Visiting Literary Artist, and what a nice
bloke! And isn't his work good! Always. It's like he has got a
gatekeeper and nothing gets out the door until it is good.
Author’s
Note – Tim Upperton
Tim
Upperton is writing his PhD. thesis on the poetry of Frederick
Seidel. His poems have been selected for Best
New Zealand Poems
in 2008,
2009,
and 2011,
and his first collection, A
House On Fire (Steele-Roberts),
was published in 2009. His poems have been published widely in
literary journals and mainstream magazines in New Zealand and the US,
and recently in the anthologies The
Best of Best New Zealand Poems (VUP)
and Villanelles
(Everyman).
New poems are forthcoming in Sport,
Landfall,
and an anthology, Obsession:
Sestinas for the Twenty-first Century
(University Press of New England).
Tim
reviews books for the Dominion,
the New
Zealand Listener,
and Landfall,
and he blogs occasionally at A
Spurred Word. He judged the New Zealand Poetry Society’s
International Poetry Competition Open Section in 2011.
First
Prizes
Northland
Short Story Competition (twice)
Manawatu
Short Story Competition
Takahē
magazine
Poetry Competition
Bronwyn
Tate Memorial International Poetry Competition 2011
Caselberg
Trust International Poetry Competition 2012 and 2013
Links
Author
page at Agni
Blog
at http://www.aspurredword.com
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