Disquiet
When pipe smoke curls 'round the grizzled horizon and the grasslands grow upon a spinster's back
there's a ragman's shed that foams and bristles like a heated beast whose captor chafes its heart.
Nothing much happens in "Disquiet", and that's part of its unease. The poem gives us two scenes, both strange. In the first, pipe smoke curls around a "grizzled" horizon, as if the sky itself has gone gray and old, while grasslands grow on a "spinster's back." The land becomes a body, and a lonely,…
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