Stump The World I
from Henry House by Nate Wooley
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II. Stump The World
Despite his name,
Happy was a serious man.
He had been Happy since boyhood,
but had rarely been cheerful;
It was the feeling, not the name, that he had outgrown.
He was a smart old man
and a good old man;
He did not have much learning
but he had good taste;
What Happy had most of all was hunger.
Big and stout, very religious.
Happy passed the plate in church and chewed tobacco,
He wore suspenders and a belt
And he appreciated the safety in having both.
Happy had an orchard where he grew a freestone peach called stump the world.
His was the gait of a man
skilled and practiced in being intricately drunk.
There was a ponderous grace within Happy.
Like that of a trained elephant
Or a locomotive.
Happy was drunkenness become precise.
Happy stood up a great deal
He stood up and he kept quiet
until a greatness was perceived,
an overabundance of silence
that he could not stand.
And that…
That is what it took to kill a man like Happy,
That was his limit.
That was his mystery.
In St. Luke’s cemetery there is a huge old apple tree that drops a sprinkling of small, wormy, lopsided apples on the graves beneath it, and in the Woodrow Methodist cemetery there is a patch of wild strawberries.
The rain is falling slowly in large drops so that the circles it makes as it strikes the surface of the pool remain intact.
For a moment at the center of each circle the black branches of the trees are mirrored perfectly, and then distorted and fragmented as the circles interlink and subside and renew.
When I die they can sell privately the little that I leave, at a discount or without one.
My skin along with the rest.
It is not new;
it is not handsome;
it is not fine;
but still it will be good for some drum or rude tambourine.
Despite his name,
Happy was a serious man.
He had been Happy since boyhood,
but had rarely been cheerful;
It was the feeling, not the name, that he had outgrown.
He was a smart old man
and a good old man;
He did not have much learning
but he had good taste;
What Happy had most of all was hunger.
Big and stout, very religious.
Happy passed the plate in church and chewed tobacco,
He wore suspenders and a belt
And he appreciated the safety in having both.
Happy had an orchard where he grew a freestone peach called stump the world.
His was the gait of a man
skilled and practiced in being intricately drunk.
There was a ponderous grace within Happy.
Like that of a trained elephant
Or a locomotive.
Happy was drunkenness become precise.
Happy stood up a great deal
He stood up and he kept quiet
until a greatness was perceived,
an overabundance of silence
that he could not stand.
And that…
That is what it took to kill a man like Happy,
That was his limit.
That was his mystery.
In St. Luke’s cemetery there is a huge old apple tree that drops a sprinkling of small, wormy, lopsided apples on the graves beneath it, and in the Woodrow Methodist cemetery there is a patch of wild strawberries.
The rain is falling slowly in large drops so that the circles it makes as it strikes the surface of the pool remain intact.
For a moment at the center of each circle the black branches of the trees are mirrored perfectly, and then distorted and fragmented as the circles interlink and subside and renew.
When I die they can sell privately the little that I leave, at a discount or without one.
My skin along with the rest.
It is not new;
it is not handsome;
it is not fine;
but still it will be good for some drum or rude tambourine.
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from Henry House,
released January 10, 2025
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