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CHRISTOPHER
MULROONEY Christopher
Mulrooney has had poems and translations in Neon Highway, Open Wide,
Aesthetica, Brittle Star, The Drunken Boat, Voices Israel
JOB
OF WORK how
to account for our it is
maybe across our bows a
trial for my wit and
all that Heaven allows
the
unmanured tree in the yard stood
berimed in Summer with
no Princeling come a- calling
nor yet a bard
came
a tapping then a
blind man in the rain who
will rise to open or let him out again?
LIGHT FROM THE ASSOCIATES
Ponce
de Leon would you like to know the
whereabouts of all claims to
knowledge about life
lust and lost
loves
here
at the podium in a major policy address the
sea captain with a pink admiral's
hat pulled
down around his ears
down
around the parlor in
the dead of night
in
the great chair that
thing is met
sparkling
wine chilled
CAT ASS TROPHY
here
are the fuels are the legendary do
the young misses miss out on
the bagelpipes and locksmiths no
by George they did not here
are the circus and those trains wild
west trains and poppycock
lo
the Indians muster
time
to turn the camp around facing the omnipotent East
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