Rainbow that rings, in spring's and dawn's new dew,
The curly-locked Medusa, 1-
To put it
in
black and white,
We were married.
1-
"A wife is a wife,"
Some husband said.
If
only
it
were true!
My wife is a
girl
playing house
With the
girl
from next door, a
girl
called the father.
And yet I
am
a father, my wife is a mother,
Oh, every inch a mother; and our son's
Asleep in a squirrel'S nest
in
a tree.
(The mother of one of us
Disappeared while circumnavigating the earth.
The people of a saucer, landing on her liner,
Said: "Take us to your leader."
They were led to the mother.
When she had answered their unasked
Questions, they flew off- and to this day, in another
Star-system many, many light-years away,
She governs the happy people of a planet.
My own mother disappeared in the same way.)
That? That is Pennsylvania Dutch, a bear
Used to mark butter. As for
this,
It is sheer alchemy:
The only example of an atomic bomb
Earlier than the eleventh century.
It is attributed to the atelier
Of an Albigensian,
Who, fortunately, was unable to explode it.
We use it as a planter.
We feel that it is so American.
