Larry Levis - In a Country

Larry Levis - In a Country

My love and I are inventing a country, which we br can already see taking shape, as if wheels were br passing through yellow mud. But there is a prob- br lem: if we put a river in the country, it will thaw br and begin flooding. If we put the river on the bor- br der, there will be trouble. If we forget about the br river, there will be no way out. There is already a br sky over that country, waiting for clouds or smoke. br Birds have flown into it, too. Each evening more br trees fill with their eyes, and what they see we can br never erase. br br One day it was snowing heavily, and again we were br lying in bed, watching our country: we could br make out the wide river for the first time, blue and br moving. We seemed to be getting closer; we saw br our wheel tracks leading into it and curving out br of sight behind us. It looked like the land we had br left, some smoke in the distance, but I wasn't sure. br There were birds calling. The creaking of our br wheels. And as we entered that country, it felt as if br someone was touching our bare shoulders, lightly, br for the last time.


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Uploaded: 2014-11-07

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