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    Time's Fancy
    Time's Fancy
    Time's Fancy
    Ebook94 pages37 minutes

    Time's Fancy

    By Brigid O'Farrell

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    • Winner of the 1995 Banta Book Prize for a Wisconsin AuthorRonald Wallace is best known for his wit and good humor, his synthesis of technical skill and strong emotion, his sensory immediacy, his accessibility, and charm. Now in Time's Fancy, his fifth collection, Wallace explores the tragic aspects of life more fully, fashioning a declarative poetry that is darker and deeper, more meditative and complex.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
    Release dateOct 15, 2014
    ISBN9780822980889
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      Time's Fancy - Brigid O'Farrell

      1

      As I walked out one evening,

      Walking down Bristol Street,

      The crowds upon the pavement

      Were fields of harvest wheat.

      The Life Next at Hand

      Behind a camouflage of sticks and debris

      we once mistook for a sparrow’s routine intrusions

      a house wren is building

      her nest in the Shopper Stopper box.

      Every day when the mailman,

      driving, left-handed, his beater,

      leans as far into her life as he can,

      she gives him what-for in a song.

      I have reached in more than once myself

      to pull some tiresome sparrow out

      of a place meant for something better

      before I’ve found that small cup of promises—

      a puff of the tiniest grasses, a twist of snakeskin—

      behind the wordy camouflage of the commonplace.

      Cricket

      Ooooh, you’ve got gigantic cockroaches

      in here! the girls shout. They’re fifteen,

      out to the country for the first time and

      unnerved by insects, chickens, cows, and dirt.

      I hear a shoe clapped like a hammer

      to the floor, getting that misapprehension

      unmistakably nailed down.

      How fear and inexperience become us.

      How wealth and ease send our small wits

      packing, or keep us always out at recess

      from the school of hard knocks, armed

      to the teeth with self-deception.

      I could go on. I’ve had my own

      rattlers in the backyard, bats in the belfry,

      monsters in the closet, wolves behind the door.

      Nevertheless, when I scrape the broken cricket,

      all rust and silence, contorted residue of song,

      off the kitchen floor, I say a small

      elegiac for our history, for us all.

      The Failures of Pacifism

      When our milk goats and their kids cavorted

      into a dark nest of mud daubers camouflaged

      in the high grass of August, and danced

      their dance toward oblivion, their tough skins

      a sizzle of ripple and twitch, their

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