10-06-2023, 10:16 PM
Departure in 13 histories
i.
Sunday morning
split down the middle
ii.
Possession in great measure
some kind of last word
its meaning churned by the blue sky
iii.
The sun is high in heaven
showing all things, good and evil
the evil must be curbed
the good brought close in embrace
iv.
Hero of my dream: yes, finally
v.
Two miles east of Mosquero
the highway pours you down
a dance of switchbacks
to a desert plain of buffalo grass, chamisa,
creosote and mesquite
vi.
A broken tooth in the mouth
sharp like a dragon in its cavern of night
vii.
Enough of this, enough of that
it burns, it burns, it burns!
viii.
Mountains dwindle into distant mesas.
Sand hills cut by arroyos
encroach on the road
ix.
Attachments: innumerable,
particularly of the four-legged variety
x.
At Logan
we cross the muddy red Canadian
its carved canyons
twist and turn out of sight,
one moment of a river
nine hundred miles long.
xi.
Fascist tendencies: o yes.
For me, for you, for ever
until Götterdämerung
xii.
Eyes blurred, lines conflict
telling different stories
inside horizontal confusions
xiii.
Captive whose confession
leapt off a bridge 31 years ago:
still waiting
i.
Sunday morning
split down the middle
ii.
Possession in great measure
some kind of last word
its meaning churned by the blue sky
iii.
The sun is high in heaven
showing all things, good and evil
the evil must be curbed
the good brought close in embrace
iv.
Hero of my dream: yes, finally
v.
Two miles east of Mosquero
the highway pours you down
a dance of switchbacks
to a desert plain of buffalo grass, chamisa,
creosote and mesquite
vi.
A broken tooth in the mouth
sharp like a dragon in its cavern of night
vii.
Enough of this, enough of that
it burns, it burns, it burns!
viii.
Mountains dwindle into distant mesas.
Sand hills cut by arroyos
encroach on the road
ix.
Attachments: innumerable,
particularly of the four-legged variety
x.
At Logan
we cross the muddy red Canadian
its carved canyons
twist and turn out of sight,
one moment of a river
nine hundred miles long.
xi.
Fascist tendencies: o yes.
For me, for you, for ever
until Götterdämerung
xii.
Eyes blurred, lines conflict
telling different stories
inside horizontal confusions
xiii.
Captive whose confession
leapt off a bridge 31 years ago:
still waiting