Two more

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Two more poems of mine that originally appeared here earlier this year---The Hanged Man and The Knight of Swords---now also appear in this month's issue of Yareah.

The Hanged Man, the Tarot card that also appears in The Waste Land, draws on some images from the Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound; most notably his noting the birds on telephone wires as similar to musical notes on a staff, but also from the figure of Pound himself, strapped and tortured in an iron cage after the fall of fascism in Italy.

I am working on a cycle of poems this year based on some cards in the Tarot deck.