The Paul Revere Girls

Duncan Hose

Gelignite seamstress I address

You as . .    California

 

O modern lump of elk, American phur seal check

Dead skunk check                    becoming dead skunk check

Whaler’s pussy shade and a various shanty I wreck myself on obsessional currents that are you

                   Licked mythologies that gt burred on the fault

There is no going back in the way

                           You fancy

 

In paso de Robles

They’re building a town called Paso de Robles it’s raining

That black pea-coat you left at Los Alamos

                          Was your home

                              Coma spare aparts in the raven lots.

Fat farmed oak with the initials from four wars.

 

Santa Susanna’s Aztecs brought to

     Contemplate the single figure of the Christ

Yr gun-cuckoo nudity and streak

You still think and spasm

     Like a bird. So bruised.

With affections and Spanish Calculus, got

Any apple seeds? We’ll make these hillsides pay and pay

 

Yours in the brambles, Sir.