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What Really Happened at Walden Pond

Peter Magliocco

Come to the glen foraging
For something spelling
Resurrection of being
(in more than
a terrestrial nutshell?).
Beg the moonlit night
To silver the lake’s surface
With a residue of love’s desire.
Something we all share,
Every being that is re-
Generative in essence.
The valley is iridescent
At morning... & Breaking camp,
The pine needles scattered about
Still smell of a piquant sap.
The pus too is a nectar
Inebriating boisterous bird life
With new morning songs,
Until Thoreau wakes
From the desuetude of ages
To hunt for the cunning Spirit
Who swims away from him,
A force churning green currents
To splash out Zen music at dawn.
What seeks the lake’s drowned lady
Who beckons from maternal dreams,
Her ghostly sorrow begging
For water of wine to silence
All snakelike tongues.

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