RUMI’S FALCON (2005)

Poetry chapbook of 48-pages, saddle stiched.

ISBN 0-9718904-2-0

Rumi’s Falcon is a sampler of previously published, as well as never before published, poems by Dodici Azpadu. Social and political commentary, personal identity, and the unexpected joys of consciousness inform this chapbook, published by Neuma Books in 2005. The following is typical of her intellectual daring at the margins of recognition.

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Poems from GIVING UP THE GHOSTS are in three parts. The first section “Phantoms” reworks the written, musical, and film versions of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. The second section, “Ghost Thinking” re-casts early Western thinkers for contemporary readers. The third section, “Personal Ghosts,” contains narrative and dramatic poems on various themes. The poem below is from the first section. Copyright by Dodici Azpadu 2011.

Music Box

Tinkling melody and silent fanfare

from chewed paper stiffened

with saliva song spray,

a dog-faced drill in Persian robes

fakes fanfare: its cymbals clap

without touching.

 

The papier-mâché baboon

attaches to a hand organ,

as one they repeat soundless fanfare

and narcotic tune that captivates

dreaming newborns who wrestle

with night’s ravishing lullaby.