Karl Shapiro Sleep Poems

  • 1.
    Two hands lie still, the hairy and the white,
    And soon down ladders of reflected light
    The sleepers climb in silence. Gradually
    They separate on paths of long ago,
    ...
  • 2.
    The bugle sounds the measured call to prayers,
    The band starts bravely with a clarion hymn,
    From every side, singly, in groups, in pairs,
    Each to his kind of service comes to worship Him.
    ...
  • 3.
    Your landscape sickens with a dry disease
    Even in May, Virginia, and your sweet pines
    Like Frenchmen runted in a hundred wars
    Are of a childâ??s height in these battlefields.
    ...
  • 4.
    What should the wars do with these jigging fools?


    The man behind the book may not be man,
    ...
  • 5.
    As a sloop with a sweep of immaculate wing on her delicate spine
    And a keel as steel as a root that holds in the sea as she leans,
    Leaning and laughing, my warm-hearted beauty, you ride, you ride,
    You tack on the curves with parabola speed and a kiss of goodbye,
    ...
Total 5 Sleep Poems by Karl Shapiro

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