?. In Tall Grass
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Bees and a honeycornb in the dried head
of a horse in a pasture corner -- a skull
in the tall grass and a buzz and a buzz
of the yellow honey-hunters.
And I ask no better [a] winding sheet
(over the earth and under the sun).
Let the bees go honey-hunting with yellow
blur of wings in the dome of my head,
in the rumbling, singing arch of my skull.
Let there be wings and yellow dust and the
drone of dreams of honey -- who loses
and remembers? -- who keeps and
forgets?
In a blue sheen of moon over the bones
and under the hanging honey comb
the bees come home and the bees sleep.
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?. Finish
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Death comes once, let it be easy.
Ring one bell for me once, let it go at that.
Or ring no bell at all, better yet.
Sing one song if I die.
Sing John Brown's Body or Shout All Over God's Heaven.
Or sing nothing at all, better yet.
Death comes once, let it be easy.
?. Cool Tombs
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When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot
the copperheads and the assassin ... in the dust, in the cool tombs.
And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
cash and collateral turned ashes ... in the dust, in the cool tombs.
Pocahontas' body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in November
or a pawpaw in May, did she wonder? does she remember? ...
in the dust, in the cool tombs?
Take any streetful of people buying clothes and groceries,
cheering a hero or throwing confetti and blowing tin horns ...
tell me if the lovers are losers ... tell me if any get more
than the lovers ... in the dust ... in the cool tombs.
?. Ripe corn
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