Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Improv: Anthony Hecht “The End of the Weekend”

A dying quirt of a cowboy leans against
The bookstack, laid at skin taut and paging
The Captain. We whip together to the dead
Wails in trees that have sinned and where
Do I feel her nails, her formless prayers told in tongs and tongues I don’t understand or can stand?
The eventual cabin of her loose and store brand underthings frill-less and frivolous
Awaits. The noise grates me against
The attic beam. I climb the moonlight
To a where a magnesium strip of
Fur congeals against the headstones
Of the dead.

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