Frolic and Detour by Paul Muldoon

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

April in New Hope

Ascribe it though we may to the McCormick clan

the technology of the mechanical reaper and hay tedder

had been developed by the Celts

before being lost with Rome. A Cambridge man

might be done for by a “bedder”

but Princeton men kept slaves. In 1849, the Corn Belt

still stretched to the Delaware.

We few, we happy few, are still so newfangled

with our own Henriad

we forget New Hope is where

each generation is doomed to wrangle

the shad roe from the shad

only to pair them once again, fried in bacon fat

and served on a white platter

with capers and lime.

By 1949, Richard Feynman was already plugging away at

the idea of antimatter being matter

that merely goes backwards in time.

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