Poetry
Gallagher, Jean
14. Jean Gallagher Arches of Bridge Break Ranks* (Or, My New Marriage) I see them suddenly tumbling but still — in their disaggregate congregating, their unpacked, uploosed...
...Jean Gallagher Arches of Bridge Break Ranks* (Or, My New Marriage) I see them suddenly tumbling but still — in their disaggregate congregating, their unpacked, uploosed goings—legible...
...The bridge back to more weighty, sterner loves, though gone, keeps in these ample, clowning curves a mindful miming of sobriety...
...A 1937 chatroal-on-cloth by Paul Klce...
...They arc breaking ranks into the real...
...These flippant flatfoot supple jumpingjacks arc stable structures of love's mobile facts...
...The arches are chatty, bustling, jostling...
...They are walking downhill in red-starred chintz...
...What they've lost in stone-solemn elegance they've gained in a shapely mobility...
...They arc busily, rampantly plural...
Vol. 121 • June 1994 • No. 11
