This poem is taken from PN Review 10, Volume 6 Number 2, November - December 1979.
Two Poems
CAROMB, VAUCLUSE
For the giant boy who plays
Alone
Pétanque in a yard
For the idiot girl
Who sings at the wrong time
Stone feet
Plunged in a dance of fish
For the white & yelping
Imbecile afloat
In the same old stream
Listen to the shriek
It is only the hirondelle
This rush of wings
Listen to the fly, it is not a fly
The buzz of weight
...
For the giant boy who plays
Alone
Pétanque in a yard
For the idiot girl
Who sings at the wrong time
Stone feet
Plunged in a dance of fish
For the white & yelping
Imbecile afloat
In the same old stream
Listen to the shriek
It is only the hirondelle
This rush of wings
Listen to the fly, it is not a fly
The buzz of weight
...
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