Tuesday, January 4, 2011

"Sonnet" - by Hayden Carruth


Well, she told me I had an aura. "What?" I said. 
"An aura," she said. "I heered you," I said, "but 
you ain't significating." "What I mean, you got 
this fuzzy light like, all around your head, 
same as Nell the epelectric when she's nigh read-
y to have a fit, only you ain't having no fit." 
"Why, that's a fact," I said, "and I ain't about 
to neither. I reckon it's more like that dead 
rotten fir stump by the edge of the swamp on misty 
nights long about cucumber-blossoming time 
when the foxfire's flickering round." "I be goddamn 
if that's it," she said. "Why, you ain't but sixty-
nine, you ain't a-rotting yet. What I say 
is you got a goddamn naura." "Ok," I said. "Ok."

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