{"id":2830,"date":"2019-08-31T18:43:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T18:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/?page_id=2830"},"modified":"2019-09-01T23:31:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T23:31:13","slug":"goldkamp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/goldkamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldkamp"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Henry Goldkamp<\/em><\/p>\n

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I been drinking, on National Yelling Day, raising hell
\nand justice for all, litotes and hutzpah for oil, whatever the hell.
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Sentimental backwash: This city, built on jetty sediment and spray.
\nMy shrimp wrists wilt limp with decadence. I pray for the hell of it.
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I soil my southern diaper. Wait for god to change me. To baptize
\nmy red tide. These, my fish lungs on drugs. This, my earth on hell.
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Blackflies kiss silverfish. Goldfish grow feet. To each their own ecosystem.
\nGet head from snapping turtles. Go down on mollusk meat. Give em hell.
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Serpentine pallets flicker my gland of planet. Eat a dick. Eat a bible. Eat acid
\nrain in sheets. Hear the gulf purr its hellcats. Beat its hounds of hell.
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All wells break loose. Take a match to the bubbles of my mind. The two
\nholes I see out on fire. Some problems fix themselves. Like hell, they do.
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I sip rotgut. I piss redeye. Shut the sunroof on my shoebox. Blackout my star
\n-smeared nadir. Lot lizards barter their globular warmth. Misery loves industry to hell
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and back. Come hell or deepwater horizons. Two choices: orchestration or
\ncastration. My vanishing point nears. My blood is drawn. No chance in hell.
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I hit the pump (I have a heart of Goldkamp)\u2014an angel gets her hairless tail.
\nPay cash: it wags. Pay credit: Please come inside. Why how do you do. Hello.
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by Henry Goldkamp<\/em><\/p>\n

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After<\/em> Holy Water Font by Unknown Silversmith,
\n     ca. 1750-1800<\/em><\/p>\n

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     I<\/p>\n

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     of a big God in polish.
\nThere is a drip to our French
\nbeau jest<\/em>. Us common fish
\nmete gods in need of polish.
\nWe swim in kitsch,
\nflounder insignia, drench
\na big God in polish.
\nThere is a drip to our French.
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     II<\/p>\n

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Save your silver. We prefer gold.
\nFlowers grown from metal
\noutdo flowers who droop and fold.
\nSave your silver. We prefer gold
\nembers ashed in bowls. Holes
\ndug in holy water fill with hell.
\nSave your silver. We prefer gold
\nflowers grown from metal.
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     III<\/p>\n

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In the fame of the dada,
\nsun, and the wholly spit out.
\nOw and fur heaver. La-la-la.
\nIn flames, dada
\npardons all French: Voil\u00e0!<\/em>
\n[Cue droplets vanished by drought
\nthe same way do dada,
\nsun, and the wholly spit out.]<\/em><\/p>\n

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Poet's Statement: \"Gas Guzzle\": I've no Middle Eastern heritage, and thus really no business playing with the ghazal form, but as the initial sketches of this poem turned towards the pejoratives of crude oil, it made sense to Americanize (corrupt) the shit out of a dignified, ancient form due to the nature of the cont(in)ent. I'll never write another ghazal again.
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\n\"Precious Metal\": This ekphrastic tri-triolet is based on a piece that is on the second floor of NOMA currently (go up the marble steps, turn right, first room on your left). Sacrilege aside, I really can't stand it, and have many times fantasized about lighting up a smoke and ashing in it; it's an ugly silver, and I'm totally a gold guy, as my surname has fatefully carved for me. It's one saving grace (ahem) is how worn down the thing is\u2014makes me think of all those poor dead souls who dipped their fingers into its waters, criss-crossed applesauced in the name of the Trinity. It'd be interesting to hang out with them sometime, somehow.
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\nFor sentimental reasons, I did recently install a holy water font in my house by the front door.
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\nBio:\u00a0Henry Goldkamp lives in New Orleans. Recent work appears in Indiana Review, Diagram, South Carolina Review,<\/em> and Notre Dame Review.<\/em> His public art projects have been covered by Time<\/em> and NPR.
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