Quoof Lyrics

How often have I carried our family word
for the hot water bottle
to a strange bed,
as my father would juggle a red-hot half-brick
in an old sock
to his childhood settle.
I have taken it into so many lovely heads
or laid it between us like a sword.

A hotel room in New York City
with a girl who spoke hardly any English,
my hand on her breast
like the smouldering one-off spoor of the yeti
or some other shy beast

that has yet to enter the language.

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From the eponymous 1983 collection, this poem shows Muldoon at his anarchical best, wreaking havoc with the sonnet form.

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January 1, 1983
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