Childhood Ideogram Poem Rhyme Scheme

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I lay my head sideways on the desk	A
My fingers interlocked under my cheekbones	B
My eyes closed It was a three room schoolhouse	C
White with a small bell tower an oak tree	D
From where I sat on still days I'd watch	E
The oak the prisoner of that sky or read	F
The desk carved with adults' names Marietta	G
Martin Truman Finnell Marjorie Elm	H
The wood hacked or lovingly hollowed the flies	I
Settling on the obsolete built in inkwells	I
I remember tonight only details how	J
Mrs Avery now gone was standing then	K
In her beige dress its quiet gazelle print	L
Still dark with lines of perspiration from	M
The day before how Gracie Chin had just	N
Shown me how to draw with chalk a Chinese	I
Ideogram Where did she go white thigh	O
With one still freckle lost in silk	P
No one would say for sure so that I'd know	Q
So that all shapes for days after seemed	R
Brushstrokes in Chinese countries on maps	I
That shifted changed colors or disappeared	S
Lithuania Prussia Bessarabia	T
The numbers four seven the question mark	U
That year I ate almost nothing	V
I thought my parents weren't my real parents	I
I thought there'd been some terrible mistake	W
At recess I would sit alone seeing	V
In the print of each leaf shadow an ideogram	M
Still indecipherable beneath the green sound	X
The bell still made even after it had faded	Y
When the dust covered leaves of the oak tree	D
Quivered slightly if I looked up in time	M
And my father so distant in those days	I
Where did he go that autumn when he chose	I
The chaste faint ideogram of ash I had	Z
To leave him there white bones in a puzzle	A2
By a plum tree the sun rising over	B2
The Sierras It is not Chinese but English	C2
When the past tense when you first learn to use it	D2
As a child throws all the verbs in the language	E2
Into the long flat shade of houses you	F2
Ride past into town Your father's driving	V
On winter evenings the lights would come on earlier	B2
People would be shopping for Christmas Each hand	G2
With the one whorl of its fingerprints with twenty	D
Delicate bones inside it reaching up	H2
To touch some bolt of cloth or choose a gift	I2
A little different from any other hand	G2
You know how the past tense turns a sentence dark	U
But leaves names lovers places showing through	F2
Gracie Chin my father Lithuania	G
A beige dress where dark gazelles hold still	J2
Outside it's snowing cold a New Year	K2
The trees streets are turning white	L2
I always thought he would come back like this	I
I always thought he wouldn't dare be seen	M2

Larry Levis

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