Donald Revell

4 FROM "ARCADY"

1. "Charles Heyde" Painted over and over There was never abuse The Hump Mt. Mansfield Painting and teaching m. Hannah Whitman 1852 d. Vermont Asylum 1892 Hallucinations Jaundiced painted Their clothes and bodies Tablecloth red Painting is teaching The louse and maggot know As much of procreation as we do Painted Mt. Mansfield once again Bed-buggiest man in the Earthly Paradise

2. "Bending with the sky" Bending with the sky Small meadows of dry Adapted grasses Eat fire from the wind Fire is what wind has One forgiveness Liberates two The desert blooms More forgiveness Bending with the sky There is no real life Without a new heart Flourishing on fire Heart is what fire has

3. "Ground I broke of weeds" Ground I broke of weeds Feeds doves this morning Three of them radiant Like sunny clockwork Silvery in shade In the small furrows Still feeding now But another way They walk straight Into the road the sun Well established there Is hot on the pavement They turn chalk white Then fly out of sight

4. "Is it that everyone" Is it that everyone The very good specially has lately really begun To think of fucking As over and done Or out of reach A thing on paper Messed between the characters It is so easy A bag of sugar Out in the rain Breaks on the pavement It is too bad It is very sweet