Weingarten, Roger

Paradise

1.  
2. Running, like a startled miniature
3. English ship around the bovine
4.  
5. Holier-than-thou, cud-chewing
6. Armada, a pig will never –
7.  
8. Scratching a merry dance of cork screw
9. Tail against grass –
10.  
11. Piss like an ungrateful
12. Child in the wind or on a cousin
13.  
14. If it can help it. Mother Mary help me
15. Say the sow, tireless and heaving
16.  
17. On her side for suckling pigs,
18. Has a look in her eye emulated by all the great
19.  
20. Religious figures of the Holy Mysteries. A cloud
21. Covers the moon and God’s squealing mob wakes
22.  
23. In the still brooding chill of an inscrutable
24. Intention that never said you must
25.  
26. Dine on the pink
27. Tapestry of flesh or thumb your nose
28.  
29. At those that do. Skip to
30. The nineteen ninety-two Italian Conference
31.  
32. On International Jewish Pig Farming, where,
33. Over a loudspeaker, a Peruvian Jewish
34.  
35. Pig farmer claimed Israelis had lost
36. Their moral beauty, because, like all other
37.  
38. Farmers working in mud from Peking to Oskaloosa,
39. They now owned swine and acted like it.
40.  
41. You can bet your paycheck the Israeli
42. Contingent gnashed their teeth, swearing
43.  
44. On their ancestors only
45. An Israeli could raise an authentic
46.  
47. Jewish hog near the Sea of Galilee and wouldn’t
48. Budge from that position. Nevertheless, International
49.  
50. Jewish charcuteries and smokehouses evoke a fear
51. So deep in the nostrils of the enemy, their memory
52.  
53. Brings dread after years have obliterated
54. Every trace. Even if J.P.F. isn’t the most
55.  
56. Controversial of all vocations, it is
57. Hard in the extreme for the naked eye
58.  
59. To capture. One specialist, crossing
60. His heart and hoping to die after a thousand
61.  
62. Nights of Jewish Pig fanning, was inhaling
63. A mixture of holy water
64.  
65. And a rare gas, when a cloud began
66. To materialize over his small
67.  
68. Brazier. He dropped a pinch of fragrance
69. Onto the fire. An apparition
70.  
71. Appeared, lying on its side, more
72. Exquisite in hue and beauty, Selah!, than any
73.  
74. Living thing he ever laid eyes upon. Only
75. Words could describe the barely
76.  
77. Visible turn of her cloven foot, the ruby
78. Flare of her’ nostril. So boychik? she said
79.  
80. without saying it, holding
81. A nosegay of iridescent blue
82.  
83. And fragrant flowers that vanished
84. And reappeared at her desire… He woke
85.  
86. In a private sanitarium in the alps, a bouquet
87. Of alpflowers cradled in his arms, swaying
88.  
89. On a porch swing above the cool
90. Meadow of clouds, looking down, halleluyah,
91.  
92. Over the green blanket rustling in the light
93. Jabber of breeze
94.  
95. And then his eyes glazed over.