May of 2010

Steven Manuel
four poems







and ecology / mixes April —JW



I should have been singing, passing

the late-bloomed

narcissus,



the flect

vines


of acanthus,



the pale


hederas,

& myrtles,



plants


amorously


littoral.









beak hold

build

a nest

porch and

wind chimes









green

breath of earth

shines

waving

vegetable


on all sides

BUNCOMBE

TURNPIKE









a truck that says




M / U / L / C / H







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I am
living in Asheville 24 yrs old the greeks / latins at a college there/here 'Masque of the Red Death' in 6th grade Mother Goose earlier Cities: Salisbury > Charlotte > Burlington > Salisbury > Greensboro > Rutherfordton > Asheville My grandma (now dead) taught my grandfather (I never met him) how to drive when he came from Saint Louis (I can't drive) I've been told of Scotland, England, Germany, Poland (Jewish) places my progenitors lived.