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In Plane View
Sister with an ulcered leg fearing teens will dig up the dead: They
drag dull blue light Young Apaches racing to give the sun back to the sun: They skid anywhere to shift shores The little boy also playing telephone in the barren air: Weariness
is being ruled by The school bus of duck hunters, very voluble about their luck: A
thunderbolt steers Like a city of shiny apartments, bourbon on the rocks: Their eyes
pack and leave them Buildings with smashed windows and leaning into shallow water: Clouds
running Salmon turning red and dying in the shallows: Forty-two dieties issue from their hearts The big silent boy who sits in the shadows of the kitchen in an army
field jacket: They do Some boys killing lice with matches until they doze off: They can
still smell the invisible Lovers watching night-wandering lizards believing them to be a sacred
disease: First sea All the Sisters having mysteries that must be changed: They walk
outside the noise of who One Precious Blood Sister coming in with bangs: Be not terrified,
not daunted thereby A dirty, busted mountain pulling the plane near: They brim with
solitude and secret The choppy mountain which held the undergrace of a last place: They
hear a riot empty Dog mountain with steam curling out of the snow crater: They almost get over someone Crooked mountaintop fretting its fretful salt away: Verging, they
are what it has to Birds clustering as if the trees hadn't been felled last year: You
cannot pray with your A carton of Pepsi cans break open and roll around under the feet of
sailors: A |
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Poetry Review