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Yours, in Effigy

from That Towering Blue by James Wylder

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From "Cascade".

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Yours, in effigy

I
Willow tree, Redden me
When deep in your branches
You sound off the Morning with
The cuk-cuk of the squirrels
And the pip-pip of the birds
Who hide their seeds in their bellies
And relegate your hair ribbons to nests

And the dying Morning calls to your
Hands as you spread your spindly fingers
Across the sky and call
“Yes it is good!”
Into a holy night
Painted in tongue
And rosy smirk


II
To Love a poet
Is to love a moment
To love someone staring at the wall
Talking about caterwauling butterflies
-leaving your soliloquy on the page
My draining desire stretches out
Like water pooling on scorched earth
Till you turn and annotate
Our drowning into the loam of the world


III
If I could write like you:
I’d be able to make Sun-drops
And the layer of rain on your eyes
Out of parenthesis

And I would revel in what is
Beyond talent, beyond the abrev. of love
And I would sit below
Your branches and catch the
Leaves when fall comes
Red,Red,Red
Like a tide of the abrupt way
We both die someday
And I wish I could write like you

IV
Caterwaul! Caterwaul!
Climbing up the garden wall
I’m a child in your sweet aged smile

Like a Vine and Nursery Rhyme
In your beige and flower print dress
You slit the stockings below the knees
And I don’t feel good
About how I hew pews from your branches
Just to wait for your hymn






V
Your white limbs stretch over the horizon
With too few branches to block out the sun
Yet you complain about shadows
And the pain in your corpuscles

And though my sap leaks
Into your very roots

I just want to hear you scream
And the drip- drip- drip
As you loose your leaves.

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from That Towering Blue, released May 1, 2016

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James Wylder Elkhart, Indiana

Author of "An Eloquence of Time and Space", "10,000 Dawns", and "Cryptos."

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