PARTISAN REVIEW
We see now we had to suffer some day, so
I cross the dragon with a blessing, low,
While the black blood slows. Clockwise,
We clasp upon the stroke, kissing with happy cries.
Of 1947
NARCISSUS MOVING
Noise of the vans woke us before we would
At the second landing a fine mirror cracked
Scratches appeared on all the valued wood
And this was the Fairway's last official act
Unfit to form attachment he is flying
The weather favors jokers of this kind
News of the hairy cousins was supplying
Barkers with gossip not to speak his mind
Blond to the dawn comes down himself in green
Verging on joy
I see his knuckles white
With joy and yet he stood all night unseen
In reverie upstairs under the skylight
The neglected corners said what they were for
"Limpid the lapse
&
sweet relapse of water
Upon my trembling image ah, no more"
He whispered and stole downstairs to the slaughter
With a banister he laid a blue bone bare
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