Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ATTITUDE FOR A DUSE, by JOSEPH WALSH


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ATTITUDE FOR A DUSE, by                    
First Line: What is so simple as the wind
Last Line: Wind leaves you as it finds you -- flesh and bone.
Subject(s): Devil; Trees; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


What is so simple as the wind
That blows when all your days are thinned
Of love? It does not search your eyes,
Nor from your hands make quick surmise
Of sorrow now: it only goes
Swift at your wrists and brow, and blows
About your body, mad to be
Upon you as upon a tree.

Wind does not care that you are still
As winnowed stubble on a hill;
It does not grieve that you are dumb
As water when clouds' shadows come,
And going leaves no thing so kind
As that it does not look behind
To see you callow, yet, as stone:
Wind leaves you as it finds you -- flesh and bone.





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