28. X Portraits- Elizabeth Guthrie
Crater Press

for Anselm Hollo
after Rue Wilson Monday

I'm getting antsy with ancient Greek graffiti
vibrations are venerable for a man of your stature
you traversed causeways and coterie, my advisor
the "poet humorist translator Anselm Hollo"
playing pool on Pearl St., this is a false memory
delivered as news, a pretty humorous hullabaloo
honky tonk is another name for Jesse James
in the days when the railroad was real and firm
hiking and hauling the Arapahoe range
you approved of the Analytic Lyric
with a nonchalance begotten upon a laugh
and I believe you when you say about yourself
"fools like me can read the Tarot"
ornaments are fragile and full of horror
I don't know what that portends, but space
sustains the space, eat art, Anselm,
your gold and red heart in 1849,
sometimes a pioneer has to peel potatoes
a stagecoach love traversed and coddled
you, true Americana, you'd never say
hoar frost, but the frost, when heat is
lost to the open skies, your eyes
hoar-frost, football and finery