O Hollywood (2)

by Matthew Dickman

MARILYN MONROE

Winter freezes on the hull
of the glass boat.
Floating in the floating city

of men,

It leans through the damp
starboard side.

 

Matthew Dickman is currently a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas , received the 2000 C. Hamilton Bailey poetry fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts, and has recently been published in Tin House, Clackamas Literary Review, Poet Lore, and Rhino.