Twice Told
By Caryl Pagel
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Caryl Pagel
Caryl Pagel is the author of two previous books of poetry, Twice Told and Experiments I Should Like Tried at My Own Death, as well as a collection of essays, Out of Nowhere Into Nothing. She is an editor and publisher at Rescue Press and the director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Pagel teaches creative writing at Cleveland State University and in the NEOMFA program.
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Twice Told - Caryl Pagel
Niedecker
Old Wars
You are trying to remember how
it happened You are trying to
remember these events in a sensible
order The narrator you think met
the old woman on a train
She had been to war or
at least you think you recall
reading that she said she had
The story started on the train
The narrator in this case was
mostly incidental The narrator in this
case was made to listen patiently
and account for The woman’s tale
you recall was too strange to
be told straight You needed to
hear it from a distance From
another mouth or source The narrator
met the woman on a train
She had been to war The
story was about the woman and
her experiences at war or more
precisely in it as a victim
and a corpse and someone who
was marched straight to and through
the brink of death—who gazed
deep into death’s vile and wintry
irises—before saving the crowd of
innocent people she had been marching
with They were on the side
of the road You remember this
detail They were on a dusty
black road being marched to death
and you know this because the
narrator is delivering this information within
a story via another story—a
story told by the same old
woman who may or may not
have existed whom he may or
may not have met on a
train who may or may not
but most likely was a part
of the war She was not
a hero She must have been
a hero you think for having
protected all of those people for
sacrificing her own soul her own
hands her own fragile sense of
self and yet there are no
heroes here Not the patient
narrator Not you for trying to
remember Not even the woman who
told the story for war knows
no heroes and makes a fool
of every witness which—right now—
through memory—is both you and
this incidental narrator and whomever you
are telling the story to You
are trying to remember how