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By Jack Joseph Smith

Mad salvage-man of the junk yard plains, distroyer of economic images, huge iron money man with one mind and no overhead, he is the wild candelabra Church thief, he is the gleamed eyed brass watcher loving closed factories in his vision of shambles; The coastal range canyons, and the cumulus cloud vast river valley flats, where the torrents of the depossessed have devilvered their lives from the realistate darkness into the soul of rain; Here where the wolf children howl, and the frolic of the windmoon moves one; the loveman sleeps with his sons wives: Anti-Christ stained glass salesman, purchaser of Church's for the installation of the pornographic printing press, Marryer of holy women, maker of his own deals through the direct wording of fantic laughter; Dangerous chain=saw cutter. Faller of giants. Dynamic split directions of trunk may slashingly chase down and smash the atom of a man's groin into unreturnable universes. Mystical vegetable grower. Lover of the river. Modern day calm Cain returned believer. Crop to market man now smiles at each incident of survival; while he spreads his land of Bibical space open to the refugee pickers; Blood letting rug wildlife slaughterman. Clean knife cutter. Coming through pink flesh between skin and bone; as-if it were his own; Spread Bear hide hung bound across the blue air. Bent-back face=head where wind moves curled fur - Dares ancient memory to the first sculpture of man; while a city witness must scratch a deliberate cheek, as if it were swallowed up by the burried tunnel of sound in the dark hairy dead ear of the bear;

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A catalog poem mythologizes salvage men, church thieves, chainsaw cutters, vegetable growers, slaughtermen, and bear-hide makers as dangerous rural figures.

The page builds a harsh rural mythology from labor, theft, religion, meat, timber, and animal remains. Its power comes from accumulating trades and violences until work becomes almost ritual sculpture.

Claude

The anarchist expands into a mad salvagesman of the junkyard plains, a church thief, a candelabra watcher, merged with the Lome Land Anarchist's catalog of dangerous trades: chainsaw faller, meat cutter, bear-hide hanger.

The page accumulates character types that all share a willingness to engage physical danger - falling trees, cutting meat, hanging bears - with the same directness as religious theft. The final image of the bear hide hung across the blue air, with its curl of fur daring ancient memory to the first sculpture of man, places the rural anarchist inside a deep history of making.