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Parallel Press Poetry Chapbooks
Things I've Never Told Anyone
CX Dillhunt
$10
CX Dillhunt was born in Green Bay and grew up happily with his
five sisters and six brothers in a big house near the Fox River.
Co-editor of Wisconsin Poets' Calendar: 2006, he is the author of
Girl Saints (Fireweed Press, 2004) and co-author with his son,
Drew, of the chapbook Double Six (Endeavor, 1994). His prose
poem, "On the Way to Riley," is part of the CD collection
PoetSongs: A Wisconsin Year in Poetry & Song (music by Charyl K.
Zehfus) performed at the Michael John Kohler Arts Center in 2002.
CX Dillhunt's haiku are a regular in the international journal
Hummingbird: Magazine of the Short Poem, where many of his
prairie haiku and travel haiku from Mexico, the Czech Republic,
Costa Rica, China, Hungary, Poland, Thailand, and Cambodia are
published. His poems have also appeared in many other magazines
and journals including Asylum Arts, Exquisite Corpse, Cream City
Review, Calliope, Spoon River Quarterly, Assembling, Wisconsin
Academy Review, and Wisconsin People and Ideas. CX Dillhunt
volunteers as a tutor and poet in the Madison Public Schools and
teaches writing at Elderhostel.
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Samplings...
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Lake Walk
I am making believe that I am wearing a tie today.
I am making believe the trees can see me wearing a tie today.
I am making believe that it matters to me and to these trees
that I am wearing a tie today.
I am making believe I can see the tie
flapping-
I am making believe that I am my neck
and I can feel the tie wrapping-
around and around and
I am this tie and I am not too wide and I am just long enough.
I am making believe I am
three colors, sometimes four-red, blue, green, gold, maybe more-
I am 100% silk, an intricate woven pattern-
a Guy Laroche, maybe (I am Fait au Canada!)
I am making believe I am wearing a tie today
and the lake is making believe she sees me.
-CX Dillhunt
Things I've Never Told Anyone
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