Costa Magic
Her father
Indisposed to her marriage
And a rabid man at that
My most sympathetic daughterвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФ
Make yourself a conception
As large as this one
Here
But with yellow hair
From the house
Issuing
Sunday dressed
Combed precisely
Splosh!
Pours something
Viscuous
Malefic
Unfamiliar
While listening up
I hear my husband
Mumbling
Mumbling
Mumbling
at the window
Malediction
Incantation
Under an hour
Her hand to her side pressing
Suffering
Being bewitched
Cesira fading
Daily
daily
feeble
softer
The doctorвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвАКвАЬPhthisisвАЭ
The wise woman
says to take her
So we
following her instruction
I and the neighbour
Take herвБ†вАФ
The glass rattling
The rain slipping
I and the neighbour and her aunt
Bunched together
And Cesira
Droops across the cab
Fields and houses
Pass
like the pulling out
Of sweetmeat ribbon
From a rascalвАЩs mouth
Till
A wheel in a rut
Jerks back my girl on the padding
And the hedges into the sky
Coming to the magic tree
Cesira becomes as a wild beast
A tree of age
вАЬIf Cesira should not become as a wild beast
It is merely PhthisisвАЭ
This being the wise womanвАЩs instruction
Knowing she has to die
We drive home
To wait
She certainly does in time
It is unnatural in a Father
Bewitching a daughter
Whose hair
down
covers her thighs.