Sunday, November 21, 2004

W. H. Auden



"My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain."

- W. H. Auden Posted by Hello

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

...unendowed with wealth or pity
little birds with scarlet legs
sitting on their speckled eggs
eye each flu-infected city.

altogether elsewhere- vast
herds of reindeer move
across miles and miles of golden moss
silently and very fast.
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i wish i could reproduce the imagery these two stanzas of his bring to mind...

lw