This poem is taken from PN Review 165, Volume 32 Number 1, September - October 2005.
Three PoemsThe Ox Truck Prospectus
The one-step programme: remember, if someone
collapses you might have miles to drive.
We have not yet learned to speak from inside our
symptoms. You will be wise not to let the
vagueness of dreams fool you into mourning
them less as their smithereens settle and drift.
Join the club, the curve, the raffle and the
wound. Everyone we meet fields a different
adventure far beyond the crossroads of our
handshake.
Sticky the bee that drowns in mead, restless the new
century, gobbling history.
A faun has no business in a jam session: it's the
wrong kind of mischief. The Dorian mode is
scarcely for now - being mad, and made of
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