JEAN-CHARLES JEFFREY

WOHKITTEL

(USA)

ISBN: 978-1-937030-25-4

2014

Nabokov

A present though less than subtle

     Influence of, in, the twentieth

          Century,

As an American of weave a Russian

     Paul Horgan, as though to think,

          The Russian

River Ob, the Colorado River,

     El Rio Grande: to the Southwest

          And Pacific

And to the Southeast the Gulf,

     Of the point in the Rockies

          They source.

The perpetuation of a civilization

     By the man through himself

          The witness.

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Charlotte Kemp Muhl

An ass I might keep, especially, of Spain, a white one;

But a mule, stubborn, beautiful, adolescent, sun,

L’ouesant, and ‘old southwest,’ St. Almudena,

Kin Cousin to Mia Maestro of visage, nun,

And Face of Jesus, de la Partida, yet subpoena;

Not the trend herself, the tree adaptation, free,

Succession of change of style on style hung,

Not a mirror d’or, but the mirror Noor not yet sung;

An accessory to design, as shoes, the composition;

Without architecture the model is mere

Artifact; or, of the skull, molar, a fair

Foundation of the structure, base, or condition;

Tooth of the tradition, faculté, outline of bare,

Posed motion, geometry, line, rendition;

Black nun of fashion black knight Amman noon;

Future court of campaigns runway destinations;

Style above compare, adjudged by some “too soon,”

Or inexperienced, better than, “cheap impersonations,”

Keep the big eyes and pout face pricelessly on!

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