Garin Cycholl The 2River View, 8.2 (Winter 2004)
Midwestern Landscape #11

Landfills for heart chaff have turned into a kind of American behavior graveyard.
Ben Marcus

the river ran a
rack of outdated post-
cards

          (how it is to wander onto an abandoned movie set

or leading
a child
by the hand
through a
landscape
some old
slapstick
routine three
seconds prior to
the film’s
end pin-
holed and
perpetual light
measured in
violent
percussive
chunks I
focus on air—
composition
by ground
glass

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