Friday, June 08, 2007

The Drought at Goose Pond Trail


& on this stump the rude broken

Rude like a dream of the crippling

Cross bound traffic. The strict

Decline of star power, radiated night.

I tell you I cant remember which dipper

You use to find the North Star

& I can’t see how they make a bear

Although a swan, sure, except the swan

Becomes a rock and every year

The cross wears its hankie to wipe

Away the snot you get with spring time.

I’m hobbled, I tell you. Just mine-swept

By the empty lake & her geese who,

Since the water S-shaped and evaporated

Just flew away, & now there’s only

The one carcass run over over by the Ruby

Teusday, that day before the Lent

When we gorge to celebrate want & loss.

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