The Grave of the Great Alley of Clarity Cats] is an anthology of poetry written by Mike Giardina, originally prepared as a thesis in creative writing, at the University of California, Davis. Please enjoy these experiments in abstract, postmodern poetry.

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To regain his composure for figures

As a cult figure,
I need motion;
the frequent fan-walled
garden of boys
who remember and
break open packages
of young girls.

My father breaks
the foundation
of the cabin,
yet I am not
at home in the
tenured frailt
of festival graves.

Ravaged in the cabin,
my wife screams–
caps and pellets sleep
at her broad shoulders all
blindfolded by the periphery.

She doesn’t fear me
and crumples up my body
as I watch her commit
my suicide to write a book
about it.

I’m going drunk
in cardinal red
and leaning
against the air.