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New and On View: Mudlark No. 17 (2001) Clouds & Green Police by Robert Gregory Robert Gregory is the author of two books of poems, Interferences (San Francisco: Poltroon Press, 1987) and Boy Picked Up By The Wind (Emporia, KS: Bluestem, 1992). Poems recent or forthcoming in Terra Incognita, Hanging Loose, Many Mountains Moving, Poetry Motel, and Willow Springs. Has also published essays and short fiction. Here is the first poem from Clouds & Green Police: Two Sisters Who Had Wandered two sisters who had wandered met in a field by the riverside the elder spoke and said September, they say continues very close houses, neighbors, babies, they say, will go to ashes in the burning world someday I tasted sweetness, the other said, yesterday the day before it rained so much, there was general disorder the spirit in the house made shaking, noise, and clamor Elias Miller of our town had a horse killed by lightning I was detained at Mother's by the rain what else did she see? the dance of the blessed skeletons and lutes burning spirits, a scorpion, a bird-man what else did she tell about? invisible spirits, a dog-face a surplus maidenhood, a stranger what else? that there is music in the motions of heaven, they say that even all this is nothing they say to what will turn and drift upward, as light as a girl inside the burning eye of grace What else? There are twenty-three more poems in Robert Gregory's collection. Read them and spread the word. Far and wide, William Slaughter _________________ MUDLARK An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics Never in and never out of print... E-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark