“Outside Lotharville”

More of this Feature • The Battle of The New Yorker: A Diary     Related Articles   • From the Collected E-Correspondence of Sparrow & Mike Topp, a Literary Miscellany • Sparrow's Bad Poetry Seminar (our very first feature article)    Elsewhere on the Web • Sparrow's Web site (still under construction)

Sparrow is the author of eleventy-two books of animal fervor “smell poetry.” He has recently relocated with his life partner Violet Snow, daughter Sylvia, and band Foamola, to Phoenicia (NY). In 1996, he was a Republican candidate for President: “Forgive all debt, free the slaves.”

As a Mystery Track, here is:

OUTSIDE LOTHARVILLE

Standing by the beech border, looking out
at the tracks of my car, which resemble a trail of
teardrops leading back to Lotharville,
I think, Why have I lived so many years on
this side of the village, when I prefer
the other side? And then, as a cat crawls deftly
over the snow, sniffing at the bark of a tree,
I think, Perhaps I prefer
the side I don't prefer. And the cat moves on.

MORE OF SPARROW ONLINE

• Sparrow's monthly column entitled “Quarter to Three” appears in The Chronogram.
• “Why I Hate Richard Nixon” is at Grist On-Line.
• “A Testimonial” appeared in The United States of Poetry.
• “Two Books As One” & “Speaking to a Corpse,” are essays/book reviews in Article Magazine.

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