Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, STRAVINSKY, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA


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STRAVINSKY, by                    
First Line: A man flips away his cigarette
Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert
Subject(s): Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)


1

A man flips away his cigarette.
A woman snaps shut her purse.
A chauffeur, black-gloved,
turns the key in the ignition.

2

Thus begetting understanding,
but beclouding his own music --
hosannas and drums; brass
in a last miraculous scram.

3

And Spring rolls in as usual --
scut, a grey fuming, roiling
and skirling over the brown
hills, bare-branched woods.


Copyright © Robert Dana.
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