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Hayden Carruth
from "Contra Mortem"
The Village
Twilight drivels down the mountain There below
in slowly gathering shadow the lights come on
lighted windows vague and yellow
and very old The town
is flecked with light except in the deep hollow
where the graves sink down Hallowed white and narrow
the steeple rises under a copper fish
swimming in final roselight. The dutch
elm beetle carries his little burden from tree
to tree Somewhere a dog
barks petulantly across a steel guitar
Ah it is all extraordinarily nostalgic
as people who come from the city
to fret beneath the police magistrate's famous hatrack
that was the last caribou and now is a pity.
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