then he will maybe(hearing something
fall into his hat)go wandering
after it with fingers;till having
found
what was thrown away
himself
taptaptaps out of your brain, hopes, life
to(carefully turning a
corner)never bother you any more.
XVI
if within tonight’s erect
everywhere of black muscles feels
a weightless slowness(deftly
muting the world’s texture with drifted
gifts of featheriest slenderness and
how gradually which descending are suddenly
received)or by doomfull connivance
accurately thither and hither myself
struts unremembered(rememberingly
with in both pockets curled hands moves)
why then toward morning he is a ghost whom
assault these whispering fists of hail
(and a few windows awaken certain faces
busily horribly blunder through new light
hush we are made of the same thing as perhaps
nothing, he murmurs carefully lying down)
XVII
how this uncouth enchanted
person, arising from a
restaurant, looks breathes or moves
--climbing(past light after
light)to turn, disappears
the very swift and
invisibly living
rhythm of your Heart possibly
will understand;
or why(in
this most exquisite of cities)all
of the long night a fragile imitation of
(perhaps)myself carefully wanders
streets dark and, deep
with rain. . . .
(he, slightly whom or
cautiously this person
and this imitation resemble,
descends into the earth with the year
a cigarette between his ghost-lips
gradually)
remembering badly, softly
your
kissed thrice suddenly smile
XVIII
i go to this window
just as day dissolves
when it is twilight(and
looking up in fear
i see the new moon
thinner than a hair)
making me feel
how myself has been coarse and dull
compared with you, silently who are
and cling
to my mind always
But now she sharpens and becomes crisper
until i smile with knowing
--and all about
herself
the sprouting largest final air
plunges
inward with hurled
downward thousands of enormous dreams
FIVE
I
after all white horses are in bed
will you walking beside me, my very lady,
if scarcely the somewhat city
wiggles in considerable twilight
touch (now) with a suddenly unsaid
gesture lightly my eyes?
And send life out of me and the night
absolutely into me. . . . a wise
and puerile moving of your arm will
do suddenly that
will do
more than heroes beautifully in shrill
armour colliding on huge blue horses,
and the poets looked at them, and made verses,
through the sharp light cryingly as the knights flew.
II
touching you i say (it being Spring
and night) “let us go a very little beyond
the last road--there’s something to be found”
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