The following comprises three of the five poems by Donald Revell published in Conjunctions:32.
In the Drisk
In the drisk
I was changed
To a mountaintop
Or drowned
I had forgotten
Drowning
Findrinny
A whale’s word
Drisk is Indian
So do works of man
Resemble works of nature
Failing to understand wait
Perfectly still mistaking
Sailboats for a mountain don’t be scared
Hymn Completed in Tears
Hymn completed in tears
No drunk can dream
I’ve been here before
What a funny candy
Be born
Be born
Someone in the circus
Fell
Into the audience
And it’s happening
Again
This is an explosion
An exact white lollipop
I refuse to stop
10 November 1997
Why not people Heaven
With magpies
It’s only the ceremony
After all
Makes us ridiculous
A birthday today telephones into the loose earth
It’s not ridiculous
Only lonely
Out of Heaven
Stories begin where they ought to
End with magpies
Starlings and synonyms
Sister’s birthday means the same
Why not people