Prelim Poems

Question 1

Hotel Room, 12th Floor

Answer 1

jumbo size dentists drill
uncivilised darkness
But midnight is not so easily defeated
wildest of warwhoops
glittering canyons and gulches

Question 2

Assisi

Answer 2

ruined temple
whose eyes wept pus, whose back was higher than his head
A rush of tourists, clucking contentedly
slumped like a half-filled sack
goodness of God and the suffering of His son

Question 3

Basking Shark

Answer 3

That roomsized monster with a matchbox brain
He displaced more than water
So whose the monster?
To stub an oar on a rock (where none should be)
Shook on a wrong branch of his family tree

Question 4

Brooklyn Cop

Answer 4

Built like a gorilla but less timid
thin tissue over violence
He is a gorilla
plunge through into violence
gorilla with a nightstick