“Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies.” VisionRedBlueRuinsButterflySighDoubtedHueBirthmarks Book:The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems Source: The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems
“The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown; The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May; But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way. Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes, Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.” WayMayLittlesEyeRunningLeftLanguageStrangeCirclesSymbolsShakesSighUp And DownAbsentStalkingGownsRabbiAbsent Minded Book:The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems Source: The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems
