Selected Poems (1968-2014) by Paul Muldoon

Author:Paul Muldoon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

from HORSE LATITUDES

At Least They Weren’t Speaking French

I

At least they weren’t speaking French

when my father sat with his brothers and sisters, two of each, on a ramshackle bench

at the end of a lane marked by two white stones

and made mouth music as they waited, chilled to the bone

fol-de-rol fol-de-rol fol-de-rol-di-do

for the bus meant to bring their parents back from town.

It came and went. Nothing. One sister was weighed down

by the youngest child. A grocery bag from a town more distant still, in troth.

What started as a cough

fol-de-rol fol-de-rol fol-de-rol-di-do

would briefly push him forward to some minor renown,

then shove him back, oddly summery, down

along the trench

to that far-flung realm where, at least, they weren’t speaking French.

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