Juxtapositions for two voices
 
(1)
 
Two children
 
horse-soldiers aim
at a running child
the first has missed
 
Tom holds a hen
and calms its nervy neck
 
‘Now let me try
the little bastard’
says the second
 
laughs at the ambling ducks
 
‘Charmed life
that little motherfucker’
says the third
 
and feeds the two
big horses and the pony
 
mummy calls for school
 
he does not miss
he answers cheerfully
 
Sand Creek, Colorado, November 29, 1864
Treburgett, Cornwall, September 14, 1998
 



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Crossings
 
(1)
 
two children
 
horse-soldiers aim
at a running child
the first has missed
 
Tom holds a hen
and calms its nervy neck
 
Now let me try
the little bastard
says the second.
 
laughs at the ambling ducks
 
Charmed life
that little motherfucker
says the third
 
and feeds the two
big horses and the pony
 
mummy calls for school
 
he does not miss