The Anagram Poems are adopted from the word game puzzles found in several syndicated newspapers: 1. End words must be derived from four or more letters in the title. 2.Words which acquire four letters by the addition of "s" are not used. 3. Only one form of a verb is used.

o v e r s e a s

Terrance Hayes

I traveled so far West it became East again, over

the mountains & through the woods until the mountains rose

again. I knew no one & knew no one could save

me. I learned to savor

the soft pink flesh of fish & listen to the odd verse

whispered by my stooped eaves-

dropping neighbor, the shy old woman obliged to serve

green tea from a stout yellow vase.

All the kneeling made my knees sore.

I moved with the ease

of an ink stain on a white kimono in a skin I couldn't erase.

© 2001 by Terrance Hayes

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