Douglas Scotney Poems

We wonder...

if the lucky few
who lasted long enough
...

You look at your burnt-out saucepan
and are impressed how
That became It.
...

In the war
you have a growing intuition
that your chance survival
on the front
...

As the guy most likely to buy yours,
a guy with one of his own,
buying yours,
would be giving you yours
...

Marie Antoinette
theorizing that the Strong Art
of the High Renaissance
allowed High Churchmen
...

You update a translation
for a generation to read
closer to their brogue.
...

She was only fifteen
when they met,
so Louis called her
Toinette.
...

Inbring for bring in
stuck for a mo,
but impatient for bad patient
doesn't seem to have been given a go.
...