Glossolalia all the way to Buffalo. (poem)

From: Chicago Review | Date: September 22, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Poppy is in the storm cellar, cleaning. Chippie and her little friend Arlene up top are riding along on the swells of a joke about the Russian tank-commander, Colonel Vladimir Khotchokakov. They are beside themselves, each wave of laughter gaining force from the one before until their faces redden for want of breath.

Their laughter is to Poppy as water falling from a jagged height in broad curtains to the rocks below. The violent little spasms, hiccups, retching nearly, moves the feel from the grotto or bosky glen to the clangorous, windswept gorge.

--How like an intoxicant, ...

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