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Should we have stayed at home,
wherever that may be?
Questions of Travel (1965)
Time to plant tears, says the almanac.
The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove
and the child draws another inscrutable house.
Questions of Travel (1965)
The ancient owls' nest must have burned.
Hastily, all alone,
a glistening armadillo left the scene,
rose-flecked, head down, tail down.
Questions of Travel (1965)
The staring sailor
that shakes his watch
that tells the time
of the poet, the man
that lies in the house of Bedlam.
Questions of Travel (1965)
Somebody embroidered the doily.
Somebody waters the plant,
or oils it, maybe. Somebody
arranges the rows of cans […]
Somebody loves us all.
Questions of Travel (1965)