1.
Let’s call it Schubert, Lili Boulanger, André
Previn and Elgar-Shostakovich all in one brain-
doored cave just waiting for the right Hirt auf
dem Felsen / Shepherd on the Rock, the right
bricks and peaked red-tile roofs, the right legs
of Eun Jung Lee working for her D.M.A. in piano,
the right plate of chirimoya on the kitchen table,
a glass of fresh pomegranate juice, the full moon
mooning in through the drape-cracks whispering
"Write it down, you’re the last prophet around to
get down the Passion and Buriel of the Grey House
-----and all the downtown sky pricks."
2.
Find me in the basement archives if you want
to find out about the 1930’s rising-from-the-dead
Chicago and living inside stone-sculpted orthodoxy,
what Old Country Polish-Czech-Peruvian grandmothers
meant in their sacred backyards with their sacred
lilacs and barbecued chorizo, Beethoven and Millet
not reborn but not allowed to cough their last cough,
Hollywood-Paris Dietrich-Hope prophets on sacred
prophetic screens of yet-to-comeness, when a Christmas
watermelon was a fiesta incarnation and morning Mass
opened daily cracks into the resurrection waiting for us
on the other side of Water Tower, Tribune Tower, Wrigley
-----Building forests death.
3.
You’ve been there too, or maybe you haven’t,
need an Ile de France time-map to see yourself
in snap-the-fingers time-space, who’s really there
in front of you (3 AM) and at the noon hour pork-
bar, who’s really on the pulpit or in the crib, or
a walk through the foresty graveyard, whence-
when writing revelations, no firebirds for a while,
just the resurrecting ghost-fields and rebirthing
-----rivers, beyond cougar-raven
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© Hugh Fox 2010
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Hugh Fox has a PhD from the University of Illinois, and has gained Professorships at Michigan State University, the University of Hermosillo and the University of Católica, as well as a John Carter Brown Library Fellowship at Brown University. He has worked as an archaeologist in the Chilean Atacama Desert, edited Ghost Dance: The International Quarterly of Experimental Poetry, and during the 1960s was the Latin American editor of Western World Review and North American Review. He has had 110 books published, and 1,435 of his poems have featured in literary magazines. His latest book is The Collected Poetry of Hugh Fox, published by World Audience (NYC).
Hugh Fox has a PhD from the University of Illinois, and has gained Professorships at Michigan State University, the University of Hermosillo and the University of Católica, as well as a John Carter Brown Library Fellowship at Brown University. He has worked as an archaeologist in the Chilean Atacama Desert, edited Ghost Dance: The International Quarterly of Experimental Poetry, and during the 1960s was the Latin American editor of Western World Review and North American Review. He has had 110 books published, and 1,435 of his poems have featured in literary magazines. His latest book is The Collected Poetry of Hugh Fox, published by World Audience (NYC).
