Rag & Bone Man Of 97035
by Scot Siegel
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_____________- after WB Yeats’s “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”
At the end of the drive
a streetlight
stays on through the day
& my bones ache
from the music
of a hundred thunderheads
curtseying like the bride
in the dream of the convict––
The veteran down our street
lives with his father
I admire his balance
two hundred pounds of rags
& bones on a wobbly
one-speed––
The way he rides up
& down our street, blending
with the neighborhood
children
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