Quesnay's AspectAuthor(s): Barbara CampbellSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Fall, 1996), pp. 141-142Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20154360 .

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Barbara Campbell

Quesnay's Aspect

Quesnay mimics

in image the orange tree

the seed of which

he carried here from_, will it grow

O Quesnay lies in wait, seldom singing

warming the bark in his palms

tonguing the trunk

for fiber and foliate

oath to his vegetable life

In the street we see Quesnay

deep in the thorax of a passer-by

deep in the thorax

which carries the heart of a dog

200 years hence and he, a Yankee

at the dog's sweet ear

And the moon

which is fixed or moves

calls the stone street

Bright Snow, calls the tree

Diseases of the Senses

Quesnay, dogged, circles the tree

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Brethren shout

against the roar of the carts

sell him to the Ishmaelites

calls the tree Joseph

When he withers the fig tree

salvage one fig

Brethren beckon

the lame dog to the apple tree

already withered

Beckon Quesnay, call Quesnay

the tree which sprang

Ardent busshe that did not waste

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