The Virginia Quarterly Review, October 1st, 2003
In the country of Catatonia,
mourning doves attack a plastic owl.
A man shouldering an ax
hears a blade of grass cry, "Save me."
A noose dangling from a tree limb
turns itself inside out.
All the church crosses have been laid end to end
to form a track for a train.
The t...
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