AQUATELOS A Thesis Presented to the Faculty ... - Cornell University

iv. Barophilia
leg ions part fortnight Thamesward
interminable jaws tricked in curves folded with lit tle lucks
a spare scintilla sweet seemly miser ies baited syllables
Boadicea had the right idea
publican gestures and fluted ancestors,
when she gave up the Holy Ghost,
and slaughtered the Roman host
it was in them too the t error stream sawing at arches
rud dy and quick made care replete atrium, ventricle
budding quonsets catlike, fey m idwife to ceasing
Harold was right to heft a good fight at rascally William’s rare features,
though fyrdmen are trouble, with beards all of stubble,
and cavalry
merciless teachers
writhing tubules furious fields pawn greys, f lashing loams
multisocket app liance inserted, as in bullet the Bosch props
front, as in seeding ear th with skulls dropped confits
The Oglala had had it with Custer’s bad habit of mixing up prospect and prairie
with elegant skill they remixed his will and his body, increasingly airy
fire packet blank eruption at tempting recognition
strange vows made a mar riage too formal
for far mers unsheatheable more strait gore
The banks of the river at Nanjing were liver the Japanese left out to dry,
the cable that jangled with heads of the mangled, too heavy a necklace for sky
quiet lo vely summer scion when coming full
vacant grammar each bubble re sting fraction of duty
the dubious honor osmotic repercussion reaped fla t field
“As a Texan, can’t stand this jus gentium: to win, you have got to compel ‘em.
Th’ only proposal that’s at my disposal’s what I like to call Jus’ Add Bellum!”
balletic fraternity make time for mone y jealous the barrels
can only spit ballistic certainty who w ill suckle
p its in clean flesh sanguine pressure barophilic humanity
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