Tuesday, January 5, 2010

First person rural (A robbery)

I.
And he walks me over                    "Look at that,"
he says 
       turning green                 as he 
talks.
 I could tell him something about
              a raw tree, so to speak
              an incredible
  woods                                         with
knots,
         full. But I don't get into that. I
                                                            head on down to the city

II.
Because we              always leave
          when I come
                                                   she is holding
                                                               out.
We are going first to Brusca Ica.
   We get nowhere
                            in the narrow little shop.
We never even get it across that we are trying.

III.
But I also have
                            done
                                      that could 
be called                 more. Over the years
I've 
   started from a state of ignorance,
                                   I have made
every mistake but one.                     I've put up a 
fence 
instead.
Put the small
          thing 
long before.
           I blundered.

IV.
I wasn't                             my pulp,
          my new woods.    
       I know now they were.
    Even then I knew it.
  But I hadn't thought of it yet.  

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