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History Of A Place, A Bombast, A Psalm In Voices Several

'What thou lovest well remains.'
- Ezra Pound, Canto 181

'Let him not be another's who can be his own.
- Paracelsus

1

'All this our South stinks peace.' - Ezra Pound

In exile, by whose hand unsure - mine, or those hammers of
The ill-starred fathers. Unsure yet on fire I fled their dredged,
God-flooded cotton plains, those self-appointed lords over
They who were deemed lesser dirt or worse. Those who did
Not sing self-praising songs belonged to lordly minds in Hell
So there to I fled and still make a bed there more content to
Be among the bastards for whom the Bard* pleads,
'Gods! stand up for! ' Ay. If the gods will not, and they do, I stand
Up and bray, a fool certain, but in the neighing take deity's cause
Upon Myself - Justice, Beauty, Mercurial Love's Sublimity
Though my heel be wounded by Adamic paternity.

2

Of late an old apple tree cracked,

Twice lightening struck. Dying, insistent

Urges, blooms anew tender shoots

Out of season. One resplendent limb reaches,

Just waking pink on tips, from all

The tangled rest for which I, too, reach,

Grasp and reclaim my own patch, my

Own history though scarred, attached

To hurting words, fists, and cornfields forever

Alien, though bittersweet when recalled -


A boy there, hard staring into distance, his wagon full of stones.

3

Might I sing it then?

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