Michael Dickman – July 29, Iyengar II & I

When I first browsed through this collection, Days & Days, I was interested but didn’t love most of it. After a year and a half spent mostly in my home, I have a much greater appreciation of the splendid, boring oddity of daily living. The pop culture references work. Part of me is really hooked by a man’s take on domesticity. Part of me, less-charitably, wonders if this work would have been as well-received if it was by a woman. The language is beautiful.

If the day is tapered leaf stems with a white undersurface tolerating

the usual errands

A tree in the shade of a tree

An ozone inside a loophole

More a Lean Cuisine than anything else

We let the grass go yellow on purpose & drove straight

to the store ,

My daughter pulls the grass up with her fingers

My son uses scissors