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Folie à Dieu
A new short story
New Poetry
take the body
banjaxed by its multiplying failures
and the mind
encumbered by unexpected subtractions
so the path ahead narrows and steepens
towards a destination
neither sought nor known
a world-entire begins its slow retreat
keys that opened the house for decades
refuse to turn
no matter how they’re coaxed and coddled
Adultery?
A Short Story
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A New Poem
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A Sequence of Poems
Three New Poems
Everything we have heard and read
pushes us out to get the big contract:
‘with my body I thee worship.’ There already
we see conditions to the important act:
‘in sickness and in health’ ‘till death’ and so on.
At this point our eyes cross. We smile and sign,
having, we think, enough to go on. Good will has mixed and melted yours and mine.
It may take years to reach the smallest print,
where happiness hides: ‘no call for certain words’
‘days to remember’ ‘power must be concealed’‘flattery, to be offered without stint’ —
clauses not noticed when the astonished birdswatched us undressing in that summer field.
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