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>> And [inaudible] one last military
poem and I'll move on to other things.

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This has to do with the Civil War.

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It's called notes toward a spring offensive.

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I will begin again in May, describing weather.

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How the wind swept up the
dust and pigeons suddenly.

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Then the rain began to fall on this and that.

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The regular ablutions.

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The soldiers marched.

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The cowards wept and all got wetted
down and winded, crushed.

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Soldiers turned even dew to
mud, shivering uncontrollably

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because the mild wind blew through wet fatigues.

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They fell down in the mud.

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Their pieces fouled, and groveled
in the wilderness regardless.

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Some died, and how, I will not tell,
since I should speak of weather.

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Afterwards, the clouds were stripped
out of the sky, palpably fresh,

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suckingly sweet like bitten peaches,
[inaudible] might say peeling tangerine.

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The air was warm by light again and those
who could rise, rose like crushed chives

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from the mud and stank and thought to dry.

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The cowards wept and some got
well again, profane with flowers.

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All was well and I have finished now.

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In May, I have described one circle of
the day and those beneath it, but not why.

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I'm talking about the [inaudible]
of the wilderness in Civil War.