Fludde by Peter Mishler

Author:Peter Mishler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 2018-02-08T00:00:00+00:00

To purchase a little land,

to take a little shut-eye

beneath the friezes of the state,

to learn the position of the heavens

inlaid on the ceilings

of our country’s Westins, yes,

it is a substantial day

for toweling off

a courtyard statue in the sun.

At quitting time,

I press my forehead

to the hallway’s ice machine,

and see a blood-red curtain

draped across a field,

and the vast epidemic

of the soldiery overstepping

what an ugly year it was

for marching us out

to the bluffs to face their god,

though we did look

preternaturally beautiful

in our uniforms

like a somnolent hand

holding a violet to its nose.

And each morning woken

by the pole of the super,

each morning sprung

at the drill of the whistle

out of my hibernaculum,

indelibly bound to my mission

to swiff the garbage

from the fountains,

to reset the scoreboards,

to polish the skywalk,

to shoo the R&D children away

from pissing out over

the tremulous vistas,

and each night in my sleep mask

atop the bedspread’s flowered maze,

I wait to hear the rippling

of the elk in the ravine below.

He is carefully rinsing off

his family’s Pyrex in the flood,

his song as old as woe.

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