Vol. 21 No. 5 1954 - page 527

like strawberry jam
on the vanilla snow
before he slips
to his hole again
like phthisical spit
slipping down a drain
to bury beneath
the weight of trees
his appetite
or his disease.
III The Mole
Beneath the flesh
of autumn flames
in screaming Joyce
between the James
below the Proust
of roots unleaving
under mammoths
mammoths breathing
under heaving
boulders blinder
where willows dine
and thunder wanders
gnaws a dumber
wonder wilder. ..
reammg spnngmg
hills and founders
down and deeper
under under
lice and Paradise
asunder