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V mr. grenache IV:
maria�s secret wedding
it could have been anybody.
according to mr. grenache
(who watched it all, we hear,
from crouched behind a heat-vent)
who cautiously asserts
he�s used
to seeing ghosts
on the floor; they slide
he says
down the filmy curtains
after clinging for seven
odd years
and they lie
in a scrap-paper pile
on the boards,
hardwood
to the last
it could have been any old
hang-dog mama�s boy
down in the whitewashed parish hall
getting the sense beat out of him sweetly
marrying maria
because she�d told him to
or at least suggested it.
down in the secret cavern
we gathered round the single crimson torch
to read his postal card: we can almost hear him laugh
and write a smiley face after the
sentence, to let us know he�s sporting:
�and if she really marries that bum i�m going
to trade my rigger for a liquor store.�
victoria was there and tubulara too
down in the misty V-shaped cavern, the one
with the very first paintings
still dripping on the walls
of ancient fires
and you don�t remember them mr.
grenache but
i do
i was there
when the first
stag violated
the first
snow
stretched taut
and teasi ng when the first
berry dropped
into a loved one�s
mouth;
dew,
it said,
and dew,
unselfconsciously
unceremoniously fell in open webs and
maria�s secret wedding now
revealed,
the colours will be black
and gold when
maria�s secret nightmare is repeated
and if she marries
that sonofabitch i�m a trade my rifle for a shot gun
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