But not at all with liberals.
"As
far as deaths
And loss ofcapital, I don't care much.
The young men killed would grow older if they
Lived, and then they would be good for nothing."
A spiritual man, incapacitated for anything else.
"Like Christ" -like Oliver Alden - "who couldn't
Be a soldier or athlete or lover of women
Or father of a family ... " A hero-worshipper
Without a hero, "Superior to his world,
But not up to his own standard," silent
For long seasons, "crushing
all
things
In his heart as in a wine press."
Robert Richman
THE EVENING SNOW
Had aged, to a blazing whiteness, the dark stubble
On the distant mountain's fuce; subdued, with high,
Impatient drifts, the creaking door of the barn;
And burdened the row of firs with quilts of ice.
Impulsively I walked toward a branch
To rid it of its silencing cocoon.
I swung
in
my backyard frigidarium.
The sleeping limb recoiled so fast I caught
A stinging blow to cheek and eye that said,
The vigor of spring still pulsated beneath
The glittering, decolorized display,
Undoing every bold unruly act.
