EARTH ~

THE CREEPY CRAWL



There's a stink in the old farmhouse
Maybe a dead squirrel or rat or could it be a cat?


We've a hot water kettle on the woodstove
With apples and cinnamon


Nutmeg
Be patient with it


It takes a long time for a life to disappear

"steady chipmunk"

photo © bob arnold

FEAST OF SNAKES ~

Harry Crews
June 7, 1935 ~ March 28, 2012










http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1231


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/books/harry-crews-writer-of-dark-fiction-is-dead-at-76.html

EARTH ~

Salvatore Quasimodo

(1901-1968)

MARCH WIND (AFTER QUASIMODO)



I will know nothing of my life but its mysteries,
the dead cycles of the breath and sap.


I shall not know whom I loved, or love
now that in the random winds of March


I am nothing but my limbs. I fall
into myself, and the years numbered in me.


The thin blossom is already streaming from my boughs.
I watch the pure calm of its only flight.


trans. Don Paterson