An Elegy for Corinne and Ben
where are you now?myths and intimations
dancing on the campus
building houses in Houston
growing elephant garlic
on the farm
with the Cascades in the distance
older now
my 54 40 Rio Grande
disdain learned
at the Captain's knee
in the
halfway house
on the
post road
shutters on the blind eye windows
bible black against the white clapboards
Demon rum in the cold, cold cellar
blond children and music flying
over the valley road
and away
Corinne would tell of what was found
Ben would speak of what was lost
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Ken Peters