Draping The Rotunda
Brazil Inc.
for Elizabeth Bishop
 
 
 
 
 
1
 
The United States intends to but will not. So charming!
Boots and smaller signifiers: a lawyer’s pet cello.
 
 
2
 
She summers with her popular summer neuralgias. Oh the troubles
& the raging quarrels with German allergists over garrets.
 
 
3
 
Snow-amplified pillars on a peninsula of creamshell pies.
Lovely cut-glass windmills & pearl radio sets.
 
 
4
 
At night, branches and doctors frighten her in her dream boat.
Winter trips upon the pavement of a local planetarium.
 
 
5
 
Coffins in May in the kitchen she had once dreamt of in May.
All her miniature locomotives deposited upon the bed.
 
 
6
 
Each letter of her name is one more way of filling up a morning
which is only Brazil surprised by revolutionary november.
 
 
7
 
The November Revolution left chapters in the branches,
and turtles weirdly silver infest a nursing home near some water.
 

 


OKAY BREAK IT UP!