Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations by David Ferry

Author:David Ferry
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780226244907
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Six

READING ARTHUR GOLD'S POEM “CHEST CANCER”

A flash of somber red

Against the Maine-drenched green,

Back of the Victory Garden,

As we kids crouched under the sun,

Weeding. It was the only sight of fox

I ever had. In the Jersey winter

I thought ah if I could have held

That fox in my line of sight.

On our way to have my septum removed

My father told me of the foxcub and

The Spartan boy. He meant to encourage.

I was guilty of telling the same cruel tale

To the same end, to my little girl Anna,

Who when it was over and done with asked

What did the Spartans have against pets.

But afterwards in the car when I complained

Of the hurt he held me against his chest.

So Anna holds her cat Rosette.

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