a duck roasting on an iron skewer:
In the mid-distance crystal air ____in the far distance, a Breughel scene of men &
women skating, leather thongs lace skates.

In the room for the woman ____occurs that indefinable pain
between vocal chords & sternum
the windpipe whistles. She covers her heart with both hands.

His manhood caused him mainly pain.
Not a hood you can remove ____7 leave bare skull:
not red wine poured from a lather wineskin.

He wandered ____making music with the astonishment ____of a wild creature
Glassed ponds set light ricocheting:
__________Last mirrory syllables of his unmet love
__________returned an aria to him:
__________The glaze the tree bleeds is amber rosin.

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Lynn Strongin edited THE SORROW POEMS which won "Book of the Month" in England's "Poetry Kit" and a nice review in AMERICAN POET, Academy of American Poet's journal.