With none among the travelers about you to exchange words with you hurry though it is foolish to do so doors ajar windows open the lake the pond the sea the dream the organdy tablecloth unfolds you hold up the matching napkins and open what you have washed ironed folded and refolded out of respect away from the crease sixty years steady again our silver chalice infrequent guest lower over the stemware reflect in the pool of spoons now you would have and illustrate the significance of knives oiled and of the clarified vases and of linen finished in lace under no inspection but the moon's and return them to the wicker cage fronting the mahogany hutch you whitened to assuage the fashion little else in the home is gilded two painted mallards stare past their frames above the radio assaying one another's round brown eyes and brown and white feathers in this condominium constructed by indifferent men with indifferent plans wither not nor weather nor wear down the single space it has no significance only that the young mind recuperating language which repeats without adjudication shall have none of it and eventually best you ghosting your watery shoulder a little chapel in a housedress of windless pink dawn | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DANNY DEEVER by RUDYARD KIPLING THE BRIDE AND GROOM by WILLIAM EDWARD ADAMS THE AUTHOR'S FRIEND TO THE READER by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) TO CAPTAIN RIDDEL ON RETURNING A NEWSPAPER by ROBERT BURNS THE PASSING OF THE OLD VERMONT MEETINGHOUSE by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY |