Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
“We too. No wisdom to utter.
You've beauty, flux, and terror
To tell. So've I.”
"Black Squirrel on Cottonwood Limb's Tip" in Skyhook #23 (Winter 1954-55); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
Context: We too. No wisdom to utter.
You've beauty, flux, and terror
To tell. So've I. And they're
Very hard to mutter
Through so much chatter and stutter.
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"Packard Goose"
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