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the charted bay,<br />

a faint ‘Halloo. . .’<br />

testified<br />

the whole world’s<br />

still there<br />

unchanged<br />

since sundown<br />

yesterday.<br />

<strong>Journal</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Italian</strong> <strong>Translation</strong><br />

[Reprinted from Richard Eberhart: A Celebration, in The New<br />

England Review]<br />

All the holes<br />

in hollow trees<br />

and crevices<br />

beneath the eaves<br />

are teeming now<br />

with snouts<br />

<strong>of</strong> small squirrels<br />

and the imperative<br />

craws <strong>of</strong> featherless<br />

198<br />

Spring<br />

starlings ready<br />

ready ready to devour<br />

devour devour devour the world.<br />

Eve Reclining<br />

(Musee Rolin, Autun)<br />

Beneath indulgent berries and forked leaves<br />

In stone Eve indolently lies so lightly<br />

She seems suspended in the buoyant air.<br />

Her flesh, formed from a rib <strong>of</strong> Adam’s dust,

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