TARANTULA DIRECTIVES
(a still life)
I knew Americo Taranto when he
was Superintendent of Schools for
Linden. Then later, I knew his son
Frank; a teacher or something with
the school system too. I always liked
how their name was a place - looked
it up once : Taranto, Italy.
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Shoe size means nothing when you're
out catching frogs. Sleepy-eyed is the
daughter of want. The kitchen kettle
is zooming in on the still-life of time,
and - not it seems - every strange
artist wants in on the painting.
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Dead rabbits hang from nails on the
knotty pine wall while, on the table top,
arrayed, are two dead pheasants,
a bowl of dreadful looking fruit, a
field-bugle with a woven-thread
strap, a foxer's cap, and a bowl
of truly destitute-looking flowers.
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All at once, I want to sing away,
bursting my lungs in song
and in reverie.
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