Renee Angle

<<Sing, viz.>>

A swim in suits
Bound smoothly breast

She has made healthy
She or come stroke

When she be paddle
No she plug in plug

No she to sheen
She swam and

Kicked she swam
She float she here

She bet she cap
She to she stow

Or she be sheep
Or she so nearly goat,

She point she toe
Round she toe she point

She shine she shine
To soaring boar.

She sip the seat
With seal she ladle

Or swims and utter buoy
To the sun. Sculls a

Soft chemical sheen
Below she

<<Sing, viz.>>

The cell has hived
to live however

Past a hitch history
the hoax remembers

While a frost
is in the cell that hived

The locked memory underneath

The daddy patterned
above the Holland

Can be thought a cell
As be hooked a honey tangerine

Hitherto he winked

But sink a Hoosier
since a hispid back

His woggle such
a hum his hum

Before very huddle
in which be brought

Among the human
his husband

For an oral bone
if hungry

A hurt jury at
hybrid vigor

And his is
everything hushaby

He swam with hypsometry
Hushaby, listen to the hub collect

<<Viz>>

Mud for a mouth
For he may pear

Were he mask
Her casting tooth

Nor ming a year
After mineral heart

So mimic crow.

NOTE:
These three poems are syntactical translations of Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things," and "Fire and Ice." Syntactical translation involves diagramming sentences of a poem and then inventing new words to stand in for each part of speech. Through a course of revisions, these pieces no longer match Frost's exact syntax pattern. Yet, I hope there is a ghost of it.