the city opens its streets, bicycles go by riderless, a woman's face in a window appears then vanishes, shop-windows offer fetishes for every season, lives turning, a slender agile couple dances in the deserted piazza, the race men run, the hairy woods shivering against the grain of light, footsteps on leaves and furrows of stiff mud, avenue of autumn royal coach rain of dew and paper -- the transparent life. Used by permission of Story Line Press. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...I LOOK IN MY HEART by SARA TEASDALE FATIGUE; EPIGRAM by HILAIRE BELLOC LEMON PIE by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST PROPERZIA ROSSI by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS THE TWINS by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH PIONEERS! O PIONEERS! by WALT WHITMAN TO A REDBREAST, THAT FLEW INTO A HOUSE ... by ELIZABETH BENTLEY |