Jon Cone
Jon Cone is a Canadian poet who lives in Iowa City. He has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and for eight years edited the international literary review World Letter. His latest collection COLD HOUSE is available from Espresso-Chapbooks of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Letter to Edith
A light went off just now. Not the light
of an idea above my head, but a literal
light – a bulb The wiring
in this cold farmhouse is shabby
Almost made it, someone once told
me The words hung secluded
in blue air in such awful
trembling manner as to suggest
complicity with pale leaves
turned over in winds below
humid thunder
They are small
unanchored praises
sung by crows and tyrants who
rule by tantrum and proclaim
wood from the pine works best
               Field Event (2005)
                                             Caw
                                             Cow
                                             Caw
                                             Cow
                                             Caw
                                             Cow
                                             Cow
                                             Cow
                                             Caw
               Field Event (2009)
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
FORK-FORK-FORK-FORK
______________
Requiescat in Pace
Anonymous Mole
               Field Event (2007)
               Under sky under cloud
               Blade worked into earth
               A clod a clod a clod a clod a clod
               (pentameter is death)
               A clod wo|rm a clod a clod a clod a clod
                              Caption: A Children’s Rhyme
                              The modern day shovel is made
                              Of grip, shaft, socket & blade
                              Of grip, shaft, socket & blade
                              Is the modern day shovel made
                              A Murder of Sublime Coordination
                                             Crow
                                                                                          Crow
Crow
Crow Crow Crow
Crow Crow Crow Crow
Crow Crowd Crow
Crow Crow Crow
Crow Crow Crow
Crow
Jon Cone is a Canadian poet who lives in Iowa City. He has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and for eight years edited the international literary review World Letter. His latest collection COLD HOUSE is available from Espresso-Chapbooks of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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