If you were less of a vowel or had a full stop in your brain. A cat's toy, a mouse stuffed with cotton. It seems we must reject the ovoid for the sphere, the sphere for the box, the box for the eye of the needle. And the world for the senate for the circus for the war for a fair for a carnival. The hobbyhorse. The attic for a drawer and the drawer for a shell. The shell for the final arena of water. That fish with teeth longer than its body is ours and the giant squid who scars the whale with sucker marks. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ODE TO ETHIOPIA by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 4. THE MOON'S ORCHESTRA by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER SONNET TO LIBERTY by OSCAR WILDE THE PALM TREE by ABD-AR RAHMAN I THE PASSERS BY by AL-RADI BILLAH |