Green Companion of Gilt

from Fresher Tin Villages by KC Bowman

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GREEN COMPANION OF GILT
Their halyards framed in lennow shades of forty-acre mule
Lie dangling from the clothesline at the Athabaskan school
Their meager transportation is not as fleet as a three-wheeled pram
With slightly fewer horses than the northernmost prairie town
The green companion of gilt
Rolled in like a paper cyclone
Why pay the forgers four months’ wages
When the forests are made entirely of the green companion of gilt?
Those born in age of plenty were scorned for creating fiscal rage
Where there previously hadn’t been any
The green companion of gilt
Eloped with uranium
Quietly yeaned their unsacred by-blow
And bid Godspeed to the churlish highlands
Indeed the manor’d been milked by a stream of esurient dissemblers
Those who remained as stablehands
Weren’t pleased when they weren’t remembered

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from Fresher Tin Villages, released January 1, 1998

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