Monday, November 11, 2013

Faulkner and Polk


FAULKNER AND POLK

“There is a blank spot
right in the middle of
where my memory
ought to be”—Noel Polk
OUTSIDE THE SOUTHERN MYTH 

Polk and Picayune—
They’re like anti-memoirs
For me back in the South

I’m not a character—
In these pages and yet
I’m writing about it

Noel Polk & Faulkner—
As well as living down
There in the Deep South

They’re both dead now—
All I have left is memories
Reading them at LSU

There in Allen Hall—
ABSALOM, ABSALOM 
Me as queer Quentin

Faulkner knew me—
 Polk too way back then
In the Viet Nam Sixties

Yoknapatawpha yanked—
Me outta the gay Closet
Deep South Lit saved me





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