for Rande


from source texts incarnate

for Rande (i smiled)

were you, um

giving me a poem that morning?
god, it was beautiful, the morning,
the weather, the story

all together

you were done trembling up a frisbee
for an hour in the sunshine
grad school rules)

i’m on a quest to close
all of those parentheses that
Charles Olson left open,
do you know?)

and you conspire well

anyway, i am emphatic
in my response to the gift
of your poetic run at five

turning to face cloud-mountain-
ous sunrise


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for Rande from source texts incarnate, chapter two of the master's thesis, for want of an epitaph, by wendy blake
© University of Maine 2000