DAVID WOJAHN
Ochre
a suite of twenty–five poems and accompanying images
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Foot Print & Torch Wipe |
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This Is Our Boy, Dog, & Cat & I Am Sticking My Nose
Through The Back Of The Chair. Burns Just
Woke Up
So He Looks Kind Of Messed Up |
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Halted Bison Bellowing, Reclining Bison Turning Its Head |
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Some Of The Goofs At Camp
*Phantom Wood*
“We Will Make a Good Beginning”
K. Hoff |
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The Alcove of the Lions |
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Colonel Allerton S. Cushman, His Wife & The Spirit Of Annabelle,
Their Deceased Daughter With The Sitters’ Faces Blotted Out To
Protect Their Identities, Ada Emma Deane, Photographer: Journal
Of The American Society For Psychic Research, Vol. 16 |
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Sixty-five Stenciled Hands, Forty-four In Black At the Furtherest
Reaches Of The Cave & Twenty-one Stenciled In Red On A Wall
Closer To The Entrance. The Most Common Position For Mutilated
Hands Is With Ring & Little Finger Held Down |
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This Is The One Where I Was Asleep. I Had Been In The Hospital
For a Month So I Kind Of Look Worn Down. The Picture Does Not Do
My Room Justice. It Was All In Pink & Blue. I Had A French
Telephone
Beside My Bed On The Radio That Doesn’t Show Up Here. Really It
Was Wonderful How The Hospital Rooms Are So Cheerful And So Much
Like A Hotel Room |
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The Killed Man |
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Sabrina Harman, Soldier in the 372nd Military Police Company,
Poses In Front of the Body of Manadel al-Jamadi at Abu Ghraib Prison |
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Skeleton of a Mammoth, Embedded with Eight Clovis Spearpoints |
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Los Alamos: Oppenheimer’s Son Peter with His Father’s Pipe |
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Several Reliefs Depicting Vultures |
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Vice President Richard Cheney Donning a Gas Mask:
Image Suppressed for Security Reasons |
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Trepanned Skull of a Woman with a Prosthetic Seashell Ear |
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Thoughtography, Ted Serios: A Part of a Series Produced By Serios
In The Laboratory Of The Physician James B. Hurry, Who Supervised
The Proceedings. Serios Was Placed In An Electrically Insulated
Room Called A Faraday Cage. He Had No Contact With His Polaroid
Camera, Held In Turns By Eisenbud & Hurry Outside The Room |
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Four Engraved & Grooved Stones, Possibly Calenderical |
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Quixo|t|ic: 248 PTS!!! (Two Triples & a Bingo) |
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In The Cactus Gallery, The Supposed Position Of The Artist Drawing A Little Red Bear, 4 M (Over 13 Feet) Up On The Right Wall |
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Triptych Wherein the Author Slays His Father.
Note the Father’s Shadow in the Central Panel |
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Fifty-four Engravings of Pubic Triangles |
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This One Davey Took From The Middle Of The Bedroom
While Johnny And I Were Both Asleep |
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Burial Of a Young Woman with a Newborn Baby
Beside Her on a Swan’s Wing |
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Sonogram Image of Twins |
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Military Portrait of My Father |
Contributor’s notes
Introduction
Something of Us to Prove Our Afterlife: Notes on “Ochre”
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements