65° - 01.07.1968, Blaðsíða 19

65° - 01.07.1968, Blaðsíða 19
POEMS Gerald Rutherford Gerald Rutherford builder of snow tunnels constructor of two storey forts from scrap lumber shooter of home made arrows of willow failer of school swearer of teachers joiner of navies how could you of the porch full of comic books (wooden apple crates filled to capacity) disappear so easily into life the successful Christian in constant prayer she still finds time to lend at ten percent what others spend Sunday thoughts when our minister bred on dry prairies preached his sermon confirming the immediate separation of the body and soul at death i wondered if he had seen fillets fresh-taken from flopping fish turn themselves in agony upon a hissing pan Elegy for Fjola Sveinson Fjola Sveinson carelessly dying on the front room couch with the T.Y. and the lights on left cornflakes unfinished coffee staining a cup half a bottle of beer going flat in the refrigerator and so many things unsaid A Canadian-Icelander, W.D. Valgardsson is cur- rently engaged as rhetoric instructor in the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa, U.S.A. His poems have appeared in The Fiddle- head, Alphabet, and Canadian Forum. 65 DEGREES 17

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