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winter after itself

87 winter after itself a first frost white except the roads out brown and damp summers faint feet still upon them local paper lists most influential people of the valley’s century names thump against my eyes unfamiliar like someone getting off a train 71 years ago staying Warshauer 50,000 sheep rich antonito past tense words like was antiseptic qualifier for the paper’s image of my home i am afflicted by my tendency to revise to know that Warshauer 88 got his lambs from lanolin handed herders brown hands that must have waved their herds goodbye onto the northbound train out of antonito be back next week he said when they sell i’ll have your money poverty looks through wrought iron at Warshauer’s mansion the paper notes this home and a lesser one which were built by a rich man with vaudeville nieces also mentioned i revise what my eyes tell me northbound trains that never returned watch the horse’s mane weep snow i revise like Pablo 89 for the broken handed for a newspaper so history filled with truth that only a snow like today’s only winter could revise that lie ...