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jeanne's faantasy of Sean Thomas Dougherty's American Sonnet on a Cardboard Fruit Box

American Sonnet on a Cardboard Fruit Box

By Sean Thomas Dougherty
The Partisan Review, Vol. 4, No. 2.
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Copyright: By Sean Thomas Dougherty, April 2002.
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I want to paint this one. Boxes, boxes, boxes. I just had to put it up for you. jeanne
Campesina this box is labled, a for moving box
of bananas box, pineapples, mangoes
box of Argentina, El Salvador, box
of Guatemala, Nicaragua, Brazil, a box
of Brazil, Ecuadorian box, Peter's Groceries box
of Paraguay box, Uruguayan Chili box, Neruda
box like Joseph Cornell's boxes of
lost things, found things: fingers, hands, limbs,
nails, necks, a box for moving
books, Campesina box, a box for
revolutions box, solutions box, evolutions a box
to store a biography of Che', a box of Coup de Tete
for leaving nada ninguno but the dead, an empty box
stamped
peasant, woman, worker, a box to fill Gringo: a box
for
you.