got up early left the house immediately tore out grass bits of leather in his pockets hit fences with his handkerchief answered yes and no to his own questions lies under the grass wilted flowers in his pockets at the fence I pull my handkerchief he liked to say no "I'm no longer the same man" and "nothing is happening to me"
Rosmarie Waldrop -- “Like Hölderlin” from The Aggressive Ways of the Casual Stranger collected in Gap Gardening













