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After Hiawatha
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Here's seven darker grains we shun
cut clean and free before
we licked the salt from buttered buns
through necks long-veined and sore.
Six small sacks of church step moss
misdealt to would-be farmers.
some tucked in wings of albatross,
the last haunts Hamlet's charmers.
Raisin pies were tallied: 5
(one ripped and incomplete).
Large slice cut with stamped tin knife
dined damp by fowl in heat.
The bedsheets as the seasons
this morning numbered four.
Two unmarked the infant reasons.
On one the film of war.
Three times the milkman checked his clock.
"I checked three times...", he stutters.
Now his birth-house lights the block.
Hot paint leaps locust-like- and sudden
from ancient blazing shutters.
The twins of highest dwellings date.
The twins of Venice play.
Pay candied jewels to woo a mate
whose rainless rooftops writhe and fray.
One comrade's mother's broader breast,
ever saved for luck and later,
leave this item last to wrest
from bags of oak and alligator.