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- Article Title: In ‘the Ukraine’
- Article Subtitle: A Peter Henry Lepus poem
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He meets a man with an icicle voice
who says it is ‘Mind’s disease’
to act impulsively; this man elevates
‘Reason’ to a pedestal, where he worships
at a cold, stony chiselled face, from afar
(& sometimes Peter sees him go up close, to peer,
at something old, cold, & slushy, underneath it –
which, he tells Peter, is a high I.Q.-ed
pickled brain, in a jar).
Between what you see
& what you say …
there is always difference; the wheat
looks beautiful & Peter
has eaten some …
His body the house
of the unprovable link?
Peter goes, with the girl,
to visit her sister
who lives in a hospital
of tired little children
whose bodies hurt
when they are awake
& when they are asleep; My little sister
is not getting better, the girl murmurs so softly
Peter almost cannot hear.
Outside high brown ears of wheat
wave & ripple under blue skies
wide as those over desert – Peter’s eyes
cannot see an end to it.
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