Misericord for Two Voices 1. She said I'll mix my heart in, wear it like a worsted coat, plant my natural law in wet pipe tobacco while mergansers swim at midnight "o beautiful" oh beautiful I'm confused as a banjo's belly he said sugar come over, wisteria blooms in any frame and here I am behind smoked glass riming the catkins again 2. Lets live on an island under palm trees. I'll find a button by the roadside, a one-armed bandit, a bucket of dent corn, we'll eat boiled kumquat on a weedy sidewalk stretched between develop and devastate. Give me the once-over; I'll give you oratory and orange root, ride the bilge water dressed in cabbage-leaf, it's going to rain and I've been thinking a lot about figure skating, last year's spring peepers forgotten hats--bowler, porkpie, stovepipe. I swear in my mind I'm brushing your hair and the nite-light flickers just the way you like it 3. she said a Pindaric ode from memory, he picked pebbles and shells from his rough-cast siding she gazed at the somewhere else diamond glades and sprouting graves he saw too he said the looping gulls that yell love songs at each other while they can.