poetry

And the banyan tree shall let down props out of her branches,

Trees lean sideways to shape out a clearing

We stripped our bodies naked

The regal Goose which Audubon drew

Into this dusk, a word whose vowels contain

Pillaged by tractor and combine,

Not any more the visions and revelations

Several of these forty-four poems are songs that owe their charm to their light cadence and exquisite diction, but across their gaiety falls a shadow because the author knows the world is "both guilt and God."

Slim boy,

Cheeks bulged,