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Sweeney Among the Nightingales
- “Alas, I am struck with a
mortal blow within.”[ -- Aeschylus,
Agamemnon ]
- APENECK Sweeney spreads his knees
- Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
- The zebra stripes along his jaw
- Swelling to maculate
giraffe.
- The circles of the stormy moon
- Slide westward toward the River Plate,
- Death and the Raven drift above
- And Sweeney guards the hornéd
gate.
- Gloomy Orion and the Dog
- Are veiled; and hushed the shrunken seas;
- The person in the Spanish cape
- Tries to sit on Sweeney's
knees
- Slips and pulls the tablecloth
- Overturns a coffee cup,
- Reorganized upon the floor
- She yawns and draws a stocking
up;
- The silent man in mocha brown
- Sprawls at the window sill and gapes;
- The waiter brings in oranges
- Bananas figs and hothouse
grapes;
- The silent vertebrate in brown
- Contracts and concentrates, withdraws;
- Rachel
née Rabinovitch - Tears at the grapes with
murderous paws;
- She and the lady in the cape
- Are suspect, thought to be in league;
- Therefore the man with heavy eyes
- Declines the gambit, shows
fatigue,
- Leaves the room and reappears
- Outside the window, leaning in,
- Branches of wistaria
- Circumscribe a golden
grin;
- The host with someone indistinct
- Converses at the door apart,
- The nightingales are singing near
- The Convent of the Sacred
Heart,
- And sang within the bloody wood
- When Agamemnon cried aloud,
- And let their liquid siftings fall
- To stain the stiff dishonored
shroud.
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