Six New Poems And A Parable

October, 1960

Skyscrapers Stand ProudThe skyscrapers stand proud.They seem to say they havesought the absoluteand made it their own.Yet they are blameless, innocentas dumb steel and the dumberconcrete of their bastions."Man made us," they murmur, "We areproud only as man is proud and wehave no more found the absolutethan has man."Love is a Deep and a Dark and a Lonelylove is a deep and a dark and a lonelyand you take it deep take it darkand take it with a lonely windingand when the winding...

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