"now you see the / two doctors, behind / you, in mind's eye, / probe into your anus, / or ass, or bottom, / behind you, the roto- / rooter-like device / sees all up, concludes / 'like a worn-out inner tube'"
— Creeley, Robert (1926-2005)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
New Directions
Date
1990
Metaphor
"now you see the / two doctors, behind / you, in mind's eye, / probe into your anus, / or ass, or bottom, / behind you, the roto- / rooter-like device / sees all up, concludes / 'like a worn-out inner tube'"
Metaphor in Context
Language of singular
impedance? A dance? An
involuntary gesture to
others not there? What's
wrong here? How
reach out to the
other side all
others live on as
now you see the
two doctors, behind
you, in mind's eye,
probe into your anus,
or ass, or bottom,
behind you, the roto-
rooter-like device
sees all up, concludes
"like a worn-out inner tube,"
"old," prose prolapsed, person's
problems won't do, must
cut into, cut out . . .
Categories
Provenance
Reading. Text available at Poetry.org: <http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15702>
Citation
Creeley, Robert. Windows. New York: New Directions, 1990.
Theme
Mind's Eye
Date of Entry
06/26/2007
