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you might have one going by here, he might go by those spruce, they're
real tame
put your legs apart
a little more
that would be the two poles
you'd put the trap there and then you'd have
some kind of a stick, with pricks, they don't like to step on that
they won't step on it
so they'll step over it into the trap?
they'll step over it into the trap. i usually
cover it with one of those men's kleenex, pull it apart, lay that over it,
for the snow
what they say
i don't know if it's true they say if a link
goes by here, in three weeks he'll come by again, like he's got a
like he's got
... round.
a circuit?
yuh like he's got a circuit
often looking across to the pretty head by the typewriter
will you put this earring in for me?
- it's in the hole but i cant get it thru to the back,
there's a little skin, there,
- feel it
does it hurt? i think it's coming thru
walk them to the truck thru cold air she
runs ahead jumps in turns on the engine
she knows how to do that?
oh yeah, she can drive
she can reach the pedals?
well she has to reach down
she's turned on the headlights
the way he looks with the light on him
darkness behind him
miles white day whiskers and the blurred
eye moon in
its white above the pickup some brown
grass standing in the beam
clods blue west much further on
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AND ELLIE AND BRIDGETTE TNH
THE
EEND
- early morning out over the porch for wood to make fire
no,
- earlier, looking at the upper field lying on the hillside
that's the one i always liked
an attention in which there's no choice
excitement thinking how it can be built
- i notice her sung call is being echoed from outside, long after she
- released it comes back faintly,
twice, am i the only one
who
- hears it
-
a cantina,
at some distance, it seems it's a jukebox song coming
- from there, twilight
- the
second lighting of the pipe, i accept a breath,
looking at the light on the goldy grass thinking
this is where i know, i'll still be here
& interested
sitting on the grass in a black robe, with my hands inside it
the woman next to me, one of the two, asks if it's like i'm pregnant
(not quite that)
a thin baby or a bag of groceries
-
- my friend sez
-
roll er over
-
- hands and feet, rolled on the ground
-
- suddenly that's it a male voice
look up shocked to a very large man in turkish dress
instantly know i've been sold & pull back my feet from the hands they're
in 'they're hurting'
they're not but i want my shoes, turkish, embroidered, off
in case i need to run or fight
& instantaneously on my feet
-
- switches to narrative 'six months later'
about to be sold as a
- slave; it was accomplished
shock wakes me
last night before sleep breathing
trying to watch the breath
after a while suddenly in an enlarged black space, seemed
the devil's realm, that imagination of a head & face
- what's the word, makyo
stand firm & pass thru
similarity or equivalence structures
now she'll look
-
- where've you bin
- up there, 'working'
- what're you waiting for
- oh. something with a roar in it
- muscle?
- mine. bigger swing. underfoot, push.
able. course
- child, free, saying,
sweet
- sweet.
- sweet. isn't one of the men, showing off,
rank. oh sweet,
- so i can be
- ah. work?
- that's it has to be, rank,
wants to be, sweet,
- shouldbe shouldbe good. wants to be
wants
- to be ahh pretty
had to leave pretty.
but where's warm
oh where's i love you little
baby
-
- and then?
- every day & child & field. it's from the center.
not forced
- hardly anyone does it right
- no. and you?
-
- she slams her heels down. ha. no flying
way. no piercing.
- no music no religion no lover no discovery
- here. stone melting out of my teeth. not magic.
returned.
- time. forced. find it. make it. none of those ways.
- other. blamed. stranged
- what'd you learn
- the machine rhymes
- the kid in tony's photograph
yeah something to keep
- them that way
he had such a fire & i never saw him again
-
- the eyeboy's little body
looking at the elders
-
-
- tiny people in uniforms
hasn't a whole brain to help him
who does
- it's crucial but no sight thru, don't know
in that
- way, don't know but
fight more openly to learn what's there
looking thru the trees to the house
who knows so much
- long flat craft somewhat
perspectived row
their west
- sweetness of color
-
samt (ar-ras)
the path (over the head)
-
- overhead azure & alone in it, smudges, of the eye
or?
seen, it might be
scintillating dots, it might be full of round things
alone with molecules
something with care & learning would be seen
-
- lazhward lazuli
l'azul
blueviolet persian
inks
-
- behind me hiss tumult & from the side trees beating
being
up there noiseless
- rectangle & open air
then
bushes by their reds to come closer around
the red stems is a blueness
if the blueness is in the bush, but it is around the bush
the
grass stalks individually the willow stems
set as they are individual & spaced, vibrating
-
- feeling back along the shapes, put memory with it, they were those
hard definite cumulus you could walk on
-
over sun & flying west away from the largest one
the speed, mass, grey
and where the sun's,
a brilliant hole slightly iridesced, ragged
stretched
ice wind on face
whether the solid ones but moving fast, are carried in an even stream
distant slit break into green, singleship dives thru
-
and why the isles of the blest : they're seen
in the Western Ocean
and fell changes in speed (with) density
and here, i'm then, as with no difference
it's surrounded by darkness that gives it the intense edge
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