1. “Charles Heyde”
Painted over and over
There was never abuse
The Hump Mt. Mansfield
Painting and teaching
m. Hannah Whitman 1852
d. Vermont Asylum 1892 Hallucinations
Jaundiced painted
Their clothes and bodies
Tablecloth red
Painting is teaching
The louse and maggot know
As much of procreation as we do
Painted Mt. Mansfield once again
Bed-buggiest man in the Earthly Paradise
2. “Bending with the sky”
Bending with the sky
Small meadows of dry
Adapted grasses
Eat fire from the wind
Fire is what wind has
One forgiveness
Liberates two
The desert blooms
More forgiveness
Bending with the sky
There is no real life
Without a new heart
Flourishing on fire
Heart is what fire has
3. “Ground I broke of weeds”
Ground I broke of weeds
Feeds doves this morning
Three of them radiant
Like sunny clockwork
Silvery in shade
In the small furrows
Still feeding now
But another way
They walk straight
Into the road the sun
Well established there
Is hot on the pavement
They turn chalk white
Then fly out of sight
4. “Is it that everyone”
Is it that everyone
The very good specially
has lately really begun
To think of fucking
As over and done
Or out of reach
A thing on paper
Messed between the characters
It is so easy
A bag of sugar
Out in the rain
Breaks on the pavement
It is too bad
It is very sweet
