O: Love Poems from the Ozarks
By Dave Malone
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Rooted in the Ozarks, rushed with language that wakens and intrigues, red with passion or perspective, these poems will call you back—to the bedroom, to friendship, to love, to your own geography.
Dave Malone
Dave Malone is the author of seven books of poetry, including You Know the Ones. He has also authored two novelet series and coauthored the stageplay, The Hearts of Blue Whales. His poem, "Spring Dress," was featured on Michel Martin's NPR program Tell Me More. Dave lives in West Plains, Missouri, and hosts the weekly Friday Poems series at his website, davemalone.net.
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O - Dave Malone
From the Poet
Teen Magazine. That awful glossy mag from the late 80s and early 90s. With covers and spreads of girl crush stars like Scott Baio and Leif Garret.
But there was also, blue of the heaps of beads.
The Diane Wakoski poem, Blue Monday,
once perched near the back of the magazine, perhaps between a shampoo ad and the latest poofy hairstyle.
In high school, my sister and I, only eighteen months apart in age, were good friends. I can’t recall if my literature-inclined sister (teen mags notwithstanding) told me to read the poem, or if I thumbed the glossy pages of the edition seeking pics of bikini-clad girls, or if the roots of my lifelong passion to understand the intelligence, feelings, and power of women took over—but nonetheless. Blue of the heaps of beads grew in my head.
This was not an ordinary love poem.
There was a man in a blue suit. There was a fedora. Blood pooled on the street.
My sophomore year of college, I decided not to date. Instead, I wanted to understand women. I figured a purity and openness might occur without the dating and sexual element (as much as is possible with nineteen-year-olds). And I learned how to listen, and though the mysterious wants and desires of women still seemed