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Custodians of a Fractious CountrySarah MangoldThey are depicted with great scientific suit sleeves A single faculty, dandelion, don’t get him started She’s on pasting chunks of text, sewing collars from the wool of country life Repeated tones: white bread letters accents philosophical hedgehogs But for Spencer evolution was going somewhere His requests to see the surface tailored but unobtrusive opened my jars rubbed my neck Riots erupt The improbably handsome A welcomed guest Insincerity in a culture brings to mind the most mysterious numbers Three volumes of German-language units to say: (blanche your beans, then ice them) Her parcels supplement mules with shows of sincerity still in combat You nervous this one is dancing Be a woman He saw American movies fell for them You’re not striving to think of Darwin but he’s thrown in My stomach was pages and gaiety did not come easily to him Sarah Mangold Read Bio Author Discusses Poems |
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