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.
