Still reading Nora




A figure fixed to a plumb line
head averted or just one limb
four chemises six pr stockings two pillows


if this is love I'm quite sure
in the hall mrs overheard and now we wait
letters letters the rare telegram


shillings that cross oceans on wires
an american wake held at the docks upon departure
eviction eviction dining on paste


threats conviction of sentiment plenty of native tweed
almost a cinemateur never exactly professor
squirrel fur blue leather bronze satin


italo-austrian border cities
parade of sibling voyages intention constant
impenetrable missing letters reconstructed


she went with her auburn her chemise
blue ribboned and expecting while he slept




1/11/2005