A hearty account, with diagrams,
of the types of decisive attack
favored by Alexander the Great.
A short entry on Lithuania
("an independent European republic"),
the Japanese tea ceremony in twenty-seven plates,
and "a nomad fakir of India"
reading his prayers on a bed of nails.
In the Krupp works in Essen the freshly cast
steel frame of a large riveter
hangs from the ceiling
like an industrial version of Rembrandt's
"Flayed Ox."
Mussolini is "an Italian statesman" with
"obvious honesty of purpose."
A trained eagle gathers to land
on the fist of a man wearing a fencing mask,
a horsehide glove, and a double
leather sleeve for his left arm.
RIKA LESSER
Love
Into the void lovers toss looks thoughts
declarations, imagining these
will be welcomed wholly without
confusion or hesitation
He pleads:
LOlJe, touch a/one preserlJes
She argues:
LolJe elldures distallce
(How near can we come in love, out of
love, how much can be given?)
