If you were less of a vowel or had a full stop in your brain. A cat's toy, a mouse stuffed with cotton. It seems we must reject the ovoid for the sphere, the sphere for the box, the box for the eye of the needle. And the world for the senate for the circus for the war for a fair for a carnival. The hobbyhorse. The attic for a drawer and the drawer for a shell. The shell for the final arena of water. That fish with teeth longer than its body is ours and the giant squid who scars the whale with sucker marks. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JEPHTHA'S DAUGHTER by GEORGE GORDON BYRON DISDAIN RETURNED by THOMAS CAREW PRAYER FOR A BOY WITH A KITE by DOROTHY P. ALBAUGH TWO SONNETS: 1. CHRIST AND LOVE'S ROSE-CROWN by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THE BANJO FIEND by WILLARD GROSVENOR BLEYER A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 27 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 23. YET STILL I LIVE by THOMAS CAMPION AN ODE ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BASTILE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |