Scarecrow. Robert Fernandez

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       scarecrow

      wesleyan poetry

       robert fernandez

      Wesleyan University Press — Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      2016 © Robert Fernandez

      All rights reserved

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      Designed by Mindy Basinger Hill

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      Cover design by Mindy Basinger Hill.

       for mary and for mimi

      contents

       Scarecrow 1

       When for a Moment 3

       It Would Be Better If You Tasted Rain 5

       We Adorn 7

       If I Offend You with My Leniency 8

       The Dauphin 9

       A Vein of Earth 11

       After Antonioni’s La Notte 12

       Pack 15

       Lost Time 16

       Sing Again 17

       Rogue Estates 18

       Your Loves Travel and Stand 19

       Bantams 20

       And 22

       So Strange Arrangements 23

       All the Deadly Ones 24

       The Dog 25

       The Ground Beneath 26

       The Leaning 27

       Flags 28

       Full Day 29

       Ad Absurdum 30

       Bruckner Grew Up among Weevils 31

       Dayrun 32

       Those You Live Among 33

       In Winter with Starred Standards 34

       The Blood Desires Nakedness of Every Sort 35

       Crowns 36

       Then from the Bronze World 37

       Vincent 38

       Of Listening and Patient Work 39

       How Could I Have Clipped So Near 40

       They Remember My Name 42

       What Tree Does Give 43

       We Are Elsewhere 44

       Who Makes a Chorus of You Here 46

       Tasso 47

       Fêtes 48

       You Are Not Here 50

       We Challenge 52

       Where You Hunt, Your Blood Goes Cold 54

       Softly the Day Stands 55

       I Want to Die Better 57

       Which Chatters Beauty 59

       Every Horned Wayfarer 61

       Thanatos 63

       Again 65

      —

       Acknowledgments 69

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      Bring your servants close.

      Nesting