Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Reason Of High Art


You ladies in the audience
     Are prone to wonder whyly,
The girls upon the ballet stage
     Do kick so awful highly.
The reason I can well explain
     In quatrains or in sonnets;
They kick thus highly so we men
     Can see above your bonnets.

Jan. 27, ‘97
Pub. in Camb. Press,

April 24, ‘97 

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