the minor poets (for fellow poets Harsubagh and Afsun)

            While disciples make their hajj to William Blake, I would rather
     pause to kiss the air on behalf of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1850 - 1919,
of Dane County, Wisconsin, who wrote, a pat on the back is only a

few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, Mrs. Wilcox one
     of the Midwestern gnostic poets at the edge of where the country
broke in half, where the midday moon appears crenelated and rusts

through the sky.  The wind could channel the vapors of atmospheric disturbance above Galena or Mt. Horeb, could summon thunderheads and crackle the blue, but sweet, dead Mrs. Wheeler Wilcox would
 
remain speechless under her sod, gone with those who gathered
     thistles and eulogized the russet manes of draft horses, camisoles
and ice frescoes.  I think of her now as I pump this roadside

spigot and listen for whatever life begins its upward journey
     hundreds of feet below.  A sputter, a muddy burst, then 
I speak in tongues, a lukewarm joy I bend toward and sop up.

It's hard enough to rescue the lost who are still with us, but 
     those who wrote so plain seem unanointed, few thickets to hew
or Latin to transliterate.  We drink what the well sends up, no

matter how aged or mineralized or from which artesian spring it
     comes, earthy in my cup of hands, water from underground, from
lightless cisterns, free flowing long after we let go.  And for
 
hours afterward an indefinite taste remains in my mouth, of words,
     I think, untapped, moving miles down in subterranean rivers and
black, enormous lakes that exist on maps only the dead possess.

--M deO

   

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