New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes
New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes
New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes
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<strong>New</strong> <strong>Classic</strong> <strong>Poems</strong><br />
Then and Now<br />
Letter to Ezra Pound (1959)<br />
Wiley Clements<br />
Dear Mr. Pound, I write<br />
to say that I regret<br />
I missed the chance you granted me<br />
last year in Washington, D.C<br />
I wish we'd met.<br />
Yet I can truly say<br />
I could not fathom why<br />
the note I sent, although naïve<br />
and importuning, should receive<br />
so strange reply.<br />
I wrote to you in fall:<br />
you answered in the winter,<br />
an envelope addressed to me<br />
in your own hand, presumably,<br />
but in it—no letter.<br />
I saved it, souvenir<br />
of you and your condition.<br />
Months after, peering down inside<br />
I saw what you had meant to hide:<br />
this cramped inscription:<br />
Next Saturday at 2pm—<br />
They read my mail, you know.<br />
But now I have a family,<br />
and you are free in Italy<br />
where I cannot afford to go.<br />
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