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Elegy and Perisphere, and: In Memory of Primo Levi, and: Among the Joshua Trees

Elegy and Perisphere, and: In Memory of Primo Levi, and: Among the Joshua Trees ELEGY AND PERISPHERE / Silver Age The heroes of the sUver age stare back from thirty years ago, peering at the boy gazing out the attic window to the lake in summer, transom open, the tiger UIy patch, nodding below in the Marsh's garden (Alsatian bride, from a war caUed Great, and scarcely of this century, forgotten Verdun, Paschendale.) On the lake the sails flit, moth-wings. SUver age: though the crucial metals are higher on the periodic chart. A bite from some plutonium-irradiated spider, or gamma rays bombard the astronauts, giving birth to the Other in the shape of Spider Man, The Thing, The Human Torch. ii. After Montale "Around us, as far as the eye can see, The inequaUty of objects, persisting insensibly_ " Spider Man vs. some new enemy-- Green GobUn, Princess Python, web sUnging The Missouri Review · 27 To triumph over Vulture, the exact SaUs on the lake. green shade of his feathers, indeUble. Dog days of August When the refugee doctor who cast my broken elbow (hairUne fractures ghostly on his fluoroscope) dives from his inboard, having chained his hands to a concrete block. Or Private Eddie Stanhope, the town's first green beret, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Missouri Review University of Missouri

Elegy and Perisphere, and: In Memory of Primo Levi, and: Among the Joshua Trees

The Missouri Review , Volume 17 (1) – Oct 5, 1994

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ELEGY AND PERISPHERE / Silver Age The heroes of the sUver age stare back from thirty years ago, peering at the boy gazing out the attic window to the lake in summer, transom open, the tiger UIy patch, nodding below in the Marsh's garden (Alsatian bride, from a war caUed Great, and scarcely of this century, forgotten Verdun, Paschendale.) On the lake the sails flit, moth-wings. SUver age: though the crucial metals are higher on the periodic chart. A bite from some plutonium-irradiated spider, or gamma rays bombard the astronauts, giving birth to the Other in the shape of Spider Man, The Thing, The Human Torch. ii. After Montale "Around us, as far as the eye can see, The inequaUty of objects, persisting insensibly_ " Spider Man vs. some new enemy-- Green GobUn, Princess Python, web sUnging The Missouri Review · 27 To triumph over Vulture, the exact SaUs on the lake. green shade of his feathers, indeUble. Dog days of August When the refugee doctor who cast my broken elbow (hairUne fractures ghostly on his fluoroscope) dives from his inboard, having chained his hands to a concrete block. Or Private Eddie Stanhope, the town's first green beret,

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The Missouri ReviewUniversity of Missouri

Published: Oct 5, 1994

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