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    Fountain Street
    Fountain Street
    Fountain Street
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    Fountain Street

    By Jazno Francoeur and Robert L. Francoeur

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Fountain Street - Jazno Francoeur

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Fountain Street, by Jazno Francoeur, Edited by Rush and Steven McElveen Rankin

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

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      Title: Fountain Street

      Author: Jazno Francoeur

      Editor: Rush and Steven McElveen Rankin

      Release Date: January 1, 2007 [eBook #20240]

      Language: English

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FOUNTAIN STREET***

      Copyright (C) 2000 by Jazno Francoeur, with Robert L. Francoeur. All rights reserved.

      Fountain Street

      by Jazno Francoeur commentary by Robert L. Francoeur

      edited by Rush Rankin and Steven McElveen

      ©2000 by Jazno Francoeur, with Robert L. Francoeur. All rights reserved.

      Published by Nettle Media, P.O. Box 536583, Orlando, FL 32803

      ISBN 0967303001

      Library of Congress Card Number: 00-190117

      Every effective poem has to maintain a state of tension between assertion and humility, the mundane and the grand, the specific and the general, the explicit and the suggestive. — Rush Rankin

      Contents

      Part One

      home Fountain Street cathexis femme inspiratrice the inevitable desire infidelity 1974 the spell Cherryvale ice breaking Leadville grandfather oracle

      Part Two

      the beginning of a scene Locust Street Appalachia visitation understanding the ancients palimpsest

      Part Three

      sympathetic magic St. Catherine's head chant epiphany the first coming ipsissima verba Camille Paglia O felix culpa

      Part Four

      bodies the kiss touch lament in three colors light prediction twelve hours in the future surrender one metaphor

      Part One

      Home

      Our life was an accident, the flames were conjured by an indifferent couple.

      So much time has passed, their union dissipated with the dumb carcass of our home.

      This house has been all of our housesÐ our

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