1 GRADUATE Z
A girl from Missouri
blooms in the bowers,
the showers. I like the
wind’s preposterous violincello,
the flying sequoias
coursing through the park.
I watch the medicine man
in snow shoes
lassoing dawn stars.
Like shadows trumpeting,
nights breed fireflies
in a wild-cat town,
a whirling fantasy of candles,
alien & vain.
Sunset’s harp-sound
the white quartz shine
& blind man song
humming root dim fields of ringing bells.
A new graduate
lean as wheat
her gratification vast & weird.
I could shag & twist
and come out tangled & awry.
But the skies
are the very whimsy
and their sails, bark temples
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2 END GAME
the list of service personnel
sober rejoicing addressed to press
& radio an official announcement
followed by ruthless aggression & brutality
for several days the issuance
broadcast a communique reliable
information
that this is true
aroused speculation
encountered little or no resistance
various scattered pockets
secured free passage
possibly loaded with troops
aside from actual operations
require vast amounts of equipment
& will no longer complain
about being orphans
able to see from a foxhole
a spokesman on the way out
3 JEALOUSY
very pretty girl stood at the edge
accidentally fired indoors.
with the kids that still thought
in terms of
the next playing field
maybe they want the heart-song for themselves.
& now that stitched emissary
pride shrunk down to trembling,
she smiled warmly, sweetly,
graveyards feast on dead voices. Tombstones can't wait to
weep for Hemingway or O'Hara or even Tennessee Williams.
as eyes would have it,
she figured if you want someone to make you omelets
bats & balls must be left behind
become the softest option
broken bedroom windows were forgotten.
the act ends with two encores
what's hummed on the way home
& then a distant crash of glass
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