Always danger - Hernandez, David (Crab Orchard Review, 2006)
Damage -- The soldier inside the horse -- Disappearer -- Customer lounge -- Alzheimer's -- The grandfather -- The taxicab incident -- According to one statistic -- The goldfish -- Another dimension -- Always danger -- Composition in red -- Composition in black -- Razors -- The whirling funnel -- So the pilot says over the intercom -- Bully -- Humiliating the tyrants -- At the courthouse -- Jury duty -- Bullet -- Chess match ends in fight -- Early lesson -- Vons parking lot, late October -- Ghost brother -- Driving toward the sun -- A story to tell -- The quiet minutes -- The dinner party -- Night -- The gondolier -- How to commit adultery -- Leaving the nurse -- Portrait of my father slapping his ear -- What a little charisma can do -- Man on an island -- Topiary -- The sad punk -- Balcony talk with cigars -- Aim -- Dumbest -- Donut shop -- The eyes -- Fontanelle -- Episode -- Subzero -- The circus octopus -- Splitmind -- Appointment -- Self-portrait with back turned -- A brief history of antidepressants
Always Danger offers a lyrical and highly imaginative exploration into the hazards that surround people's lives-whether it's violence, war, mental illness, car accidents, or the fury of Mother Nature. In his second collection of poems, David Hernandez embraces the element of surprise: a soldier takes refuge inside a hollowed-out horse, a man bullies a mountain, and a giant pink donut sponsors age-old questions about beliefs. Hernandez typically eschews the politics that often surround the inner circle of contemporary literature, but in this volume he quietly sings a few bar