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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SINCERELY NOT ARTESIAN, by CARLYLE FERREN MACINTYRE
First Line: Under the dry land in its sleep
Last Line: Forcing new sap in the ferns' fossil leaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macintyre, C. F.
First Line: Under the dry land in its sleep
Last Line: Forcing new sap in the ferns' fossil leaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macintyre, C. F.
Under the dry land in its sleep
the song of water glides on feet of thieves,
rises in silver, generous to slap
briskly the chines of the drouth-beaten beeves,
and with meniscus pinch the pool's baked lips:
mirror gleaming green with mirage-corn,
and chaparral where flanks rub off shrewd flies,
where the last Indian rots by the stone quern,
and on raptorial compass-arcs for flaws
wide vultures scan, or still as urns on cairns
solicitously regard the starving calves
and whet beaks sharp as a committee's greed ...
tucked cooly, safely, leaden water laughs
and gravidly seeps down the easier grade,
forcing new sap in the ferns' fossil leaves.
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