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James Capozzi
AMES CAPOZZI was born in West Milford, New Jersey. He attended The College of New Jersey and The University of Texas at Austin, where he was a founding editor of Bat City Review and the recipient of a James A. Michener Fellowship. COUNTRY ALBUM is the winner of the 2010 NEW MEASURE POETRY PRIZE.
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Country Album - James Capozzi
I.
Apparently there is no limit, Joe remarked.
Anything can be said in this place
and it will be true and will have to be believed.
—Flann O’Brien
Cape Fear Canon
A song that’s a machine of sorts. A dream
I had of Us and Them, of ways in which
we need to shut Them down. All that beach
seemed poison too, until an ibis came
to me, perfecting those crude dunes like the Christ
of dunes–ivory plumage blooming in all
the ways we said it would, its rusty wail
slammed into place. It gets the last
word in, amen, but why does that word lead
above all others to this, the source,
the nest from which it never rose
up once at war within itself? Nor chose,
of course, to be like Us and stay like Us.
To die quietly in bed.
The Eureka Stockade
Our rallies had gone famously
in Ballarat and Castlemaine.
There was no power outside the people
we said, and the people agreed
an ace against searches
and the punitive price of a fossicking license.
So we made haste in those days
lashing timbers onto timbers.
Most came for the rum I am sure
but I cannot blame them–
molasses-black, it built hospitals
along the glamoured port. We posed
at the mullock cones, opal pools in
our hearts and potch thrust in our fist.
I was preparing to air this flaw in the design
when the siege appeared, creeping like disease
in an infant. It split pre-dawn apart.
Our aspiring leader spoke of the senate
as agents splintered the barricade.
The others shouldered arms
took stances we had seen in scrapbooks
or attic museums.
I remember the queer smell of my gun.
Stars began to swim
sky seeping like pitch
through gaps in our ceiling.
True West
Some patron of epic commotion
proposed it, threatening
to break across the fuming plain
into scene: hero, solo and