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Three Poems John Duvernoy
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Triptych if you wander away from the picnic the wolves but if the picnic is peopled in sheeps’ clothes if the wolves are not wolves but far worse, moles if the teething green of the field rubs off on your mind if the wine is not blood but the pain of the sun if the ground soaks through every paper place setting if he is an asphalt, would you be writhing in the street if i’m a low shoulder, hugging every curve if faith is an elastic collision, soundless but for night’s slow weight on gravel ends Outskirts Earth Winter sun’s tongue traced the spit-shined anus under the sky. The knee-high snowflowers began to lasso their roots at the butcher’s sleigh. In the piney woods, a cleaving place spirits the moon inside a cake dish, shortest day. We congregate in the spill. Light we can feel streaming instants underneath. Blue clot of light slides over the iris. Mineral tang. (any day now, passing through, dear life, the dear dead (life will arrive, any day now and in passing, i’ll drop every name i know Easy, Easy Devil Maniacal need night ushers in, hog ties you to me, of me, and in, in, the way the fatback blood is in, deep in, the stropped and rutted hillside. □ |