I like the turn from 'envision' to what happens in the 2nd stanza especially, Ken.
Doug
On 2012-11-21, at 1:05 PM, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> THE CLOUDS
> after Van Gogh, "Wheat Field With Cypresses"
>
> Only the true postmodern
> could see the clouds beyond the trees
> and not envision Nagasaki,
> boiling over fields,
> turning the wheat
> into air above Chernobyl,
> undulating, swaying breezes
> befouling a universe of tainted brilliance.
>
> Birds in the cypresses wither,
> fall and die, unknowing,
> and the cat who nears them prey-driven
> goes to ground in fearless ignorance.
>
> KW--almost Thanksgiving 2012
>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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