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errol miller




Romantic Arcadia




At first the shadows
acquired form postwar 1945
that old manipulative agent of change
oilmen and lawyers on the run
velvet Venice, its back door open
this place looking out upon
a Titan of a lady awakening to the East
experimenting with the textiles of the land
she is from Charlotte's North American Shore
she is form the hairlipped Boston Mountains
where all the heroes and the heroines
from unfortunate pulpy novels
dream of finer glamorous lives
in pink brocade, o Roberto, from Spain
your legacy of running bulls
what you do to them in fascination
slitting mundane throats, I am
glad for imagination
marvelous silly stuff
supporting a baggy transient system
with silent partners
can you remember the Jazz Age
a purple eye roaming the parlor
hand-painted flesh perfected
closer to home
geographical things matter, like the movies
or having a fit to marry, then
it is honeymoon
the collection signed
and a gleeful intricate parcel
arriving at doorway, this
is the classical flowering
of birds and beasts
wide-brimmed plantation times
with Spanish moss and red-tiled roofs
twilight organic with its blue
and the green of peachtree
away dancing, downtown, perhaps
in New York City
in the gay facade of morning masquerade.



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