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The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas Karren LaLonde Alenier Announcing Pre-bookstore limited Edition
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MARTIN JERVIS A Peaceable Passing In my grandfather's allotment days In cold frames and hot earth beds, Grew chlorophyll green and carotene red, Vegetable all shapes with Mendelian genes And cholesterol ignorance amongst the Caterpillar chewings and wasp bitten apples. Old men in a peace of missed bullets shared Pipefuls of Redbreast, Four Square and Gallagher's Rich Dark Honeydew, a fog Of tobacco gas and visions of Somme, Passchendale, Flanders and Ypres. They watched the slow food rising, Safe distanced in a patchwork hut, Sitting deeply on a faded sofa, soft Flowered, with its guts hanging out And springs thrust forwards like barbs. Watching rising bubbles, hen soaked Manure, permeating unmasked nostrils, A Rhode Island Red fights all comers, Bayonet-beaked, outside his wired run. The slow food grew high in fresh fields, Strings of onions hung side by side With bunches of drying parsnips on dead straw And they dug large white King Edward's from Trenches that were not full of men.
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