Look in the flower deep in the tulip cup where the redness sinks in a still whirlwind of black look in the stone look in the drop of water or look back or forward to the moon or the sun or look up to the wells of the sky look down the hot strip of the highway straightening forever or in the glass gone black and silver of the cars plunging past look in the socket of the candlestick or in that of the shotglass look in the empty gauntlet look in the clamshell or in the straw hat of the president look well in the book whose perfect lines string out so black and flat look at the cigarette smoke rising look look Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN EPITAPH UPON HUSBAND AND WIFE WHO DIED AND WERE BURIED by RICHARD CRASHAW LONDON VOLUNTARIES: 3. SCHERZANDO by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY NEGRO by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES THE GOOD SHEPHERD by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO CURFEW MUST NOT RING TONIGHT by ROSE HARTWICK THORPE YOU MAY REMEMBER by LULU PIPER AIKEN |