| InterBoard Poetry Competition | |
THE OTHER DAVID
Tom Rodes
(The Critical Poet)
Not the meaty marble mesomorphic
David left by Buonarroti’s chisel.
Bronze, androgenous and Mapplethorpic,
callow youth with curls and arms of swizzle
sticks bent fourfold, forming flaccid fruity
brackets ’round his teeny weenie, savory
budding breasts, smooth thighs and girlish booty,
Donatello’s monument to bravery.
Judge David Hernandez’s comments: “What a wonderful name. Even better is the music and whimsy found in this poem. When was the last time you saw ‘teeny weenie’ in a poem? Never, I bet.”
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Honorable mentions, January 2005
