Josephine Miles: Gypsy

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Farmland along the upper Delaware River in New York State
: photo by John Collier, June 1943 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)




The entire country is overrun with private property, the gypsy king said.
I don't know if this is true,
I believe in the gypsy kingship though.

The lost tribes of my own nation
Rove and rove.
In red and yellow rough and silent move.

I believe
The majesty pot mending, copper smith
On the hundred highways, nothing to do with.

And black eyes, black I never saw,

Searching out the pocket lines of cloth
The face lines and the furrows of belief.

It's a curious fact, Stephan, King, if you are made to doubt
Aegyptian vision on the Jersey shore.
Property's private as ever, ever.





http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsac/1a34000/1a34500/1a34566v.jpg

Farmland along the upper Delaware River in New York State
: photo by John Collier, June 1943 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)


Josephine Miles: Gypsy, from Local Measures, 1946

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