Richard Blevins
Three Sleeps, Etude for Coach
This Round West
'the prairies' dreaming sod' — Hart Crane
Seated according to Milton's reading
List,
the seventeenth-century occupies
My seat.
Opposite, you nap
Approximately the birth of Suckling.
The experience of america is to look
Up from Donne, into
Missouri, Missouri
Nothing lasts. Even directions
Correct themselves by finally arriving:
Cato, Varro, Columella —
At home in Milton.
Basements drain the bridgeless lakes of light
Out of a world once a singer's world.
Your Regular Salina Song
'And all my mother came into mine eyes
And gave me up to tears — Henry V
Emotions that cannot be you except what
you are to me, swarm about my thought:
uniform and empty
sockets for towns punctuate the unseen
green folded parts sliding by
either side this redline road.
This interminable returning
to the promise of you
makes living with another corrupt:
I've stripped you of ways to
surprise me:
you cannot possibly outlive my
plans for you;
my arriving as the unwrit history
Home
land,
washed by an immured sea
whose waves meet the unmoved sky.
Geo Herbert by the rentme lockers
there refused to remove
quietly
to that framed corner
its near bench
beneath the clock blades
whittled down to nothing
inside of an hour
all fearfully occupy
who
slit the throat of sleep.
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