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grandmother poem

out of the sparkling sea
in halls of sleep you wandered by
she limps with halting painful pace
it is true that you say the gods are more use to you than fairies
a blue-black nubian plucking oranges
had he and i but met
the arches of the red bridge
up from the meadows rich with corn
and with the humming bird
the smell of the rose so false, the thorns so true
therefore i may not

 



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