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Conto of arcaid (Saturn, 21).(Poem)
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Harvard Review
- Article date:
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December 1, 2007
- Author:
- Kinsella, John
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She won't smile the smile of incineration.
They won't sing the song of disintegration.
Together sprung, noise music, see-through mirrors.
Locusts spin in flurries. They have begun to fly.
The bobtail out the back is fat. Crow feathers
are strewn over acres. Rings forming
in the bright sky. Their descent is known.
The ladder is propped up against the rainwater
tank--have to ascend to clear the leaves
from the grille, but she would only have me descend:
precarious, I perch. My ears are giving me hell.
Two days ago we drove down to Arcadia.
Into Arcadia along forestry roads, rutted
by logging trucks filling the quota. The protest
Camp with its wire and papier-mache
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