Eligos – Babbling Ghost #15
Glen Lantz, July 2009
you are the subject of hope and bewilderment your incandescent hovering ghost I find you at the Metropolitan Museum you are staring at a French Sculpture from the Renaissance you say it reminds you of revolution so many mediums a beautiful middleclass housewife living in the big city wanting to burn it all down throw it all into turmoil rather than vain mediocrity you draw the letters out when you say it as if it has a special meaning
I have no armor left I am defenseless you have taken it from me warmly burnished throwing out the first pitch looking at the people all of the people we walk along the gleaming white concrete the fools smitten with love another concrete blonde
Glen Lantz is 47 years old and lives in Dubuque, Iowa. He has a BA and a MA in Sociology from the University of Northern Iowa. His work has appeared in 10K Poets Zine, Bad Marmalade, Calliope Nerve, Clockwise Cat, the Curious Record, Deep Tissue Magazine, Heroin Love Songs, Madswirl, the Plebian Rag, and Zygote in my Coffee. Also, Glen has poems forthcoming in Poetry Now, and in the Dubuque Area Writer’s Guild 2009 Anthology Music & Dance.
Glen is also the managing editor of 2 poetry zines, Eviscerator Heaven and Deep Tissue Magazine.
You can find more of Glen’s work at MySpace.
