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FIVE POEMS

FIVE POEMS FICTION AND POETRY Eric McHenry SUMMER MIX For seven dog years, Uncle Mark, I’ve meant to say my god that summer mix you sent is awesome. Every song’s a winner on it. Telephone Road should not exist. I mean how can a sound so cluttered sound so clean I could eat Brian Wilson’s dinner on it? How can one note so clarify another, brother once-removed? I love my mother and father and some Simon & Garfunkel records but, off the record, who are they? Novelists say context, painters say perspective and the rest of us say uncle. Common Knowledge 14:3 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-2008-011 © 2008 by Duke University Press so that worked out. And Dylan is a faint buzz from the bedroom Sonja’s trying to paint. But she’ll be opening a window soon, and when she does, because this is an essay, it will become the mouth that sings his messy Dignity to the afternoon. I’m on the level part of the back lawn with Richard Wilbur, but your mix is on, and his collected magisteria are going to be closing for the day. It’s mostly homely here. The house is slab, cinder and cedar. Some of the grass http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

FIVE POEMS

McHenry, Eric
Common Knowledge , Volume 14 (3) – Oct 1, 2008
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FICTION AND POETRY Eric McHenry SUMMER MIX For seven dog years, Uncle Mark, I’ve meant to say my god that summer mix you sent is awesome. Every song’s a winner on it. Telephone Road should not exist. I mean how can a sound so cluttered sound so clean I could eat Brian Wilson’s dinner on it? How can one note so clarify another, brother once-removed? I love my mother and father and some Simon & Garfunkel records but, off the record, who are they? Novelists say context, painters say perspective and the rest of us say uncle. Common Knowledge 14:3 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-2008-011 © 2008 by Duke University Press so that worked out. And Dylan is a faint buzz from the bedroom Sonja’s trying to paint. But she’ll be opening a window soon, and when she does, because this is an essay, it will become the mouth that sings his messy Dignity to the afternoon. I’m on the level part of the back lawn with Richard Wilbur, but your mix is on, and his collected magisteria are going to be closing for the day. It’s mostly homely here. The house is slab, cinder and cedar. Some of the grass

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Common Knowledge – Duke University Press

Published: Oct 1, 2008

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