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PoemsMrs. Duane Krauss, sure of her solitude, grimaced between the kitchen alcove’s cryptic lesser motifs of Elvis and Saint Jude, herself the central subject of the triptych: her young-old country cheeks and looming bust, the timely smile, gathered around a lie. She called me “dear,” she bowed, she briefly fussed, then turned to pat her mother’s china dry.
I did my part. I showed how bright I was, * * *
Across the white hill swallows fanned and scattered, This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 23 December 2004, on page 36 Copyright © 2008 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/in-the-home-of-my-sitter-1178
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