Rio: A Journal of the Arts

 

George Wallace

 

firetrucks across the puddle

 

fourth of july another texture with plans and possibilities
bleeding between the brass trombones
there! next to the red bass drum
one girl with a tuba round as milton cracks a joke
her friend with a piccolo replies in birdsong
the germans do one thing the french another
but this is America i just wear my hat and from time to time i wave  it
how about this sequence of colors
the whole idea of noah and his guiding muse
for example a space shuttle in its paring down
one of our favorite myths
what a surprise flying over the sirens the lights
into the sweeping sunrise

 

 

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