«Unbelievable, — they declared, — rubbish, / But I overheard it from a second, / Third, everyone. Into stopped time / Lined up without distinction were / Houses of officials and business men, / With yards and trees covered with / Rook-cocks, in sun’s intoxication, / Flaring up at ...»
«Sleep on a Summer’s Night / (Five Verses) 1 A heated conversation. Not quite ended, / Until suddenly: abrupt departure! / Letting hair down from the swarm of squabbling / Like a crescendo of Chopinesque etudes. As if a hurt genius, you divide up the salmon / In the white house across ...»
«Sleep on a Summer’s Night / (Five Verses) 2 All morning from nine to two / A vexed spirit from the ozone rides / About the garden among snakes and rosemary / And the exhausted oleanders. The white balcony turns blue. / Asleep — deserted by the muse — on all sides. / Hoary raspbe...»
«Sleep on a Summer’s Night / (Five Verses) 3 He simply darts about in rags with a pianist / With oblique detours falling down his shoulders. / The basket and crumbled man drag on miserably / And the grand piano with raised lid vegetates. Along the buildings he hangs out with a pack / O...»