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THE IOWA GOATSINGER
10/29/11
-- this morning before the dawn --
he put on his white hoodie and his running shoes,
and he went outside to play the rabbit
down the streets of Mount Revere.
10/30/11
-- was that Hendrix whispering in my ear just now? Tempting me down the hole with the promise to teach me a new song?
10/31/11
-- his hood this morning flapped against his skull as he ran, and he wondered: Is this what it's like to run with long ears?
And Rabbit? He twitched at the sound of the man running at him, still some fifty yards off; then heard it for what it was, held himself still until the man ran by, and relit his pipe.
11/1/11
-- he wonders, as he runs up and down the streets in the darkness this morning: Why is the rabbit not afraid? --and answers back: Because he's smarter than the cat.
11/2/11
He ran up and down Mount Revere this morning --
In the hours before the dawn --
Hopping nimbly between sidewalk and street --
Following the goat path.
11/3/11
Down by the quarry, running --
He heard Greg Brown mutter --
From behind shutters of oak and maple --
"I'm living in a prayer."
11/6/11
Who was that glimpsed through a window while running this morning?
Were those horns over his ears? -- or headphones?
Was he dancing like Fagin in his own kitchen? Or am I mistaken?
11/7/11
Fathered by a trickster god -- weaned on Iowa corn.
2 comments:
Wow! You've been really posting, and I haven't been keeping up! It'll take a bit for me to read all of this. You should be able to click on a box that says "email follow-up comments to:" or something like that.
I was talking about the Buffalo Gals piece. Not sure which category that fits into!
Sounds like you are keeping busy. Good luck with it all!
Yeah, the Tucker/Gals piece is ready. All I need is a choreographer, and singer-dancer-actor types.
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