IN A PROUD HOME

take up the moss: stiff: knee
high: light the anvil: lean against:
hack off the beet tops: your own
proud country: which later gives names:
don your cracked rubber boots:

alone in the capital: here again
alone:

your cast iron basket: unbendable knee:
your moon-lit mud-wallow: lean against
your stone bicycle: please name: your own
starving: the sickness begins
with muscle aches:

please name me Nero: fisherman
in hell:

more: stockings tight to knees:
more capital cites: dread: lean
famine: obliteration: your own
count out the staples: which count
out the cobbles: signal beginning:

sing loud: my friend: the animal