(Untitled Fragment) p. 562

fuckyeahhouseofleaves:

There is only a black fence
and a wide field and a bar of Wyeth red.

The smell of anger chokes the air.
Ravens of September rain descend.

Some say a mad mad hermit man lived here
talking to himself and the woodchuck.

But he’s gone. No reason. No sense.
He just wandered off one day,
past the onions, past the fence.

Forget the letters. Forget love.

Troy is nothing more than
a black finger of charcoal
frozen in lake ice.

And near where the owl watches,
and the old bear dreams,

the parapet of memory burns to the ground
taking heaven with it.