Old and Unselected Poems
Pale, penciled scribblings, old bits, old notes
Forgotten drafts in old books shelved away
And lines painfully worked out during lectures
About Napoleon’s painful hemorrhoids
And the declensions of those Latin nouns
Which with their verbs Omnis Gallia divisit
Or something like that, forgotten long ago -
But not
her hair
her voice
her smile
her eyes
Others cannot write to her happy theme -
She writes herself as iambs in a dream
Sep 30, 2017
Sep 30, 2017 at 4:01 PM UTC
Old and Unselected Poems
Pale, penciled scribblings, old bits, old notes
Forgotten drafts in old books shelved away
And lines painfully worked out during lectures
About Napoleon’s painful hemorrhoids
And the declensions of those Latin nouns
Which with their verbs Omnis Gallia divisit
Or something like that, forgotten long ago -
But not
her hair
her voice
her smile
her eyes
Others cannot write to her happy theme -
She writes herself as iambs in a dream