At the edge of the city the pickerel  
vomits and dies. The river
with its white hair staggers to the sea.
My life lay crumpled like a smashed car.
Windows barred, ivy, square stone.  
Lines gather at mouth and at eyes  
like cracks in a membrane.
Eyeballs and tongue spill on the floor  
in a puddle of yolks and whites.
The intact 707
under the clear wave, the sun shining.
The playhouse of my grandfather’s mother  
stands north of the shed: spiders
and the dolls’ teacups of dead women.  
In Ohio the K Mart shrugs;
it knows it is going to die.
A stone, the closed eye of the dirt.
Outside before dawn
houses sail up
like wrecks from the bottom of the sea.  
A door clicks; a light opens.
If the world is a dream,
so is the puffed stomach of Juan,
and the rich in Connecticut are dreamers.
There are bachelors
who live in shacks made of oil cans
and broken doors, who stitch their shirts  
until the cloth disappears under stitches,  
who collect nails in Ball jars.
A trolley car comes out of the elms,
the tracks laid through an acre of wheat stubble,  
slanting downhill. I board it,
and cross the field into the new pine.

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