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Miriam Sagan

     

Clovis

a digging stick, a tent stake, a fish-tail point flint

a cinder cone over a vent to earth's magma core

a pink trailer set among sunflowers

the word FEED in faded red letters on a white wall

to be known by what you leave behind:

chips of flint,
Venus de Milo,
headless Aphrodite
white & naked
in front of a red curtain
at the Metropolitan

a spindle, a spindle rock, dinosaur tracks

a very old man sitting alone at a picnic table

a very blue lake

something happened to the narrative

bullet holes in the white tin ceiling

cloud of bison

caves in Brazil

the footprint of a child pushed back the date of human arrival on this continent

a very yellow tin church set among sunflowers

extinct volcanoes leaping like green dolphins

something destroyed the narrative

the Folsom Museum is closed, peeling, flanked by rusted shovels

the train passed

the highway passed

something eradicated the narrative

black clouds of bison

bows that shake

arrows that shatter


Copyright © 1999 Miriam Sagan, Roshan Houshmand.

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