“in old movies
and rings—“
—David Trinidad, “Black Telephone,”
The Best American Poetry 2010,
Sandover as film noir poem—
Imagining it as occult movie.
Spooky black & white voodoo
Jacques Tourneur horror classic
I Walked With A Zombie (1943)?
Like Eleanora “Maya” Deren—
One of Merrill’s Dramatis Personae.
Is this Merrill’s idea of occult poetics,
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)?
Voodoo avant-garde cinema?
Experimental Waste Land?
Auden’s Sandover communiqué,
About “dwelling in the greenwood
Perspectives of the mother tongue”?
Metrical moats of the Unseen?
THINK WHAT A MINOR—
PART THE SELF PLAYS IN A WORK OF ART
COMPARED TO THOSE GREAT GIVENS
ALL TOPIARY FORMS & METRICAL MOAT
RIPPLING UNSOUNDED! FROM ARCADIA?
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