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Petrarch 2.9 (for Koto & Yuki)


I open The Norton Anthology Of Poetry and there I am

Why did nobody tell me   the poems of A.O.Barnabooth

When The Sun Tries To Go On   bee-axed neighbours’ eagles

On China’s paper   shyness & a wafery head   drag sheep away

Into maritime cupboards   I think not of for whom the bell tolls

Gonads have that clear pencil   & the dancing accordionist

& the Pleadies   hole tan-surface  pear clock  wipes

I think not of those who think nothing of the avant-garde

Tendency in   the decency of lemons   sigh   rates gold   my hat!

On Dover Beach   A German Pea Hospital   Lefty & Hysterical   on prickly heat

Where Paint   was everybody’s top   shirt-ads   sleep resisting billboards

Plagiarism of sunny stars   evenings places  a  it is A

Or bee (insect)   or sea (letter)   red-yellow   watermark  on China’s paper

When everyday    Lobsters at the cat funeral    close the gay book