Occult reportage

“Admittedly I err by
undertaking this
in its present form”
—James Merrill,
The Changing Light
Of Sandover

The occult is much more
Gossipy than one would
Think, according to Merrill
Discussing Sandover the
Book years later.

In the beginning when
He & David Jackson began
Ouija conversation with
The dead, the completed
Form was unanticipated.

Poets like Merrill & Yeats
Naturally view the Unnatural
As poetic devices to display
What queens of heaven
They are to Readers.

Merrill says, for example:
Poetry is all ghostwritten
And that The Waste Land
Was actually not by Eliot but
Written by Arthur Rimbaud!