Still Working It Out. Brad Davis

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СКАЧАТЬ shadows through tall grass

      and over the spindly gray limbs that litter

      the south end of the lake. I cannot

      always navigate their tangle to observe

      by kayak the slow technique

      of the elegant bird, thin neck and head

      poking spear-like at the rising moon

      to swallow her quicksilver prey.

      But I do not come here to see a bird hunt

      or watch a moose forage or even one

      pair of feasting waxwings dance on air.

      I come out, reclined in yellow fiberglass,

      to inhabit the instant of last light

      suspended between the darkening sky

      and water. I come here to remember

      how small I am, how nearly

      invisible toward midnight I become,

      enfolded by the skin of my slender craft.

      How I love to all but disappear

      when the moon finally sets and what’s left

      to burn inside this diminutive form

      is the faint testimony of ancient stars.

      So It Goes

      Winter antelopes into erstwhile

      dogmas committed against an ivory

      cane, and three ducats of pilsner

      can’t buy me lust or you levitating

      with one hand on the other in arcs

      of unctuous radiator steam falling

      all over itself like drunken blind luck

      or a dispossessed Carnegie.

      Don’t get me wrong. Trains are

      my optimal frame of deference,

      their unsung articles gallivanting

      the transvaal with brash gargoyles

      in a grand quartersawn wish

      to make moguls of slush piles

      the old-fashioned way, by blowing

      in their alabaster nostrils. And reeking

      of time, I am here to report that

      the gossamer intersection of infinite

      space and your sizzling flywheel

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