dummy

Dreary. Half deserted beach risk
no attitude. Dear miles
with joggers & ducks.
This calls. So write. Ramps
to sand as they ought. Fog,
danger where they ought.
Planks that they miss.
Hanging vines.
Slips to avoid.

Winter,
cement shoes,
and old tires.
Ice nylon jacket down
pylons, & spinning lights.

Howl of wolves:
rectangular redclatter
of boxcar unloaded
& smote the unCow &
a dripping uniform of feet/men curved
& dirted the track. Its face
brake from the smokestack.

The unCow had waited and desperately
waited & was certain
it was a victim and was not a victim. It was
blue &spotted&
silver-spotted and
it was red.
It spoke of its being & of its being
of being false.

It was not going to
sparkleblueskies, brambles and
cool, far-away-up, far-from-Jesup,
away-up virginals, woodsclearingtotalbrush,
other unCows,
meandering and sweet grass. Tall
and tearful

but it was going to Moo
all by itself & keep Mooing
all by itself. It was going to
reap the air
with its beloved
steelwhiteteeth steelthorns
hurling thickrazor

of self which stopped as
There was fire.

The Angelus bellowed,
Save me. What it sounded like
was like a hiss. There was
not one to open it.