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The Curtain
Just over the horizon a great machine of death is roaring and

rearing.

One can hear it always.
Earthquake, starvation, the ever-

renewing field of corpse-flesh.

In this valley the snow falls silently all day and out our window
We see the curtain of it shifting and folding, hiding us away in

our little house,
We see earth smoothened and beautified, made like a fantasy, the

snow-clad trees
So graceful in a dream of peace.
In our new bed, which is big

enough to seem like the north pasture almost
With our two cats, Cooker and Smudgins, lying undisturbed in

the southeastern and southwestern corners,
We lie loving and warm, looking out from time to time.


"Snowbound," we say.
We speak of the poet
Who lived with his young housekeeper long ago in the

mountains of the western province, the kingdom
Of complete cruelty, where heads fell like wilted flowers and

snow fell for many months across the mouth
Of the pass and drifted deep in the vale.
In our kitchen the

maple-fire murmurs
In our stove.
We eat cheese and new-made bread and jumbo

Spanish olives
That have been steeped in our special brine of jalapeños and

garlic and dill and thyme.

We have a nip or two from the small inexpensive cognac that

makes us smile and sigh.

For a while we close the immense index of images

which is
Our lives--for instance, the child on the Mescalero reservation

in New Mexico in 1966
Sitting naked in the dirt outside his family's hut of tin and

cardboard,
Covered with sores, unable to speak.
But of course the child is

here with us now,
We cannot close the index.
How will we survive? We don't and

cannot know.

Beyond the horizon a great unceasing noise is undeniable.
The

machine
May break through and come lurching into our valley at any

moment, at any moment.

Cheers, baby.
Here's to us.
See how the curtain of snow wavers

and falls back.


Credit: Copyright © 1995 by Hayden Carruth.
Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, www.
coppercanyonpress.
org
Written by: Hayden Carruth

Book: Reflection on the Important Things