Old friend, what are you looking for?
After those many years abroad you come
With images you tended
Under foreign skies
Far away from your own land.
___ George Seferis
This column has
A hole. Can you see
The Queen of the Dead?
___ George Seferis
Call the rollerof big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscentcurds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring the flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emporer of ice cream.
Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which sheembroidered three fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
To show cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emporer of ice cream.
_____ Wallace Stevens
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