Ezra Pound (1913)
En robe de parade. —samain
Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
And she is dying piece-meal
of a sort of emotional anæmia.
And round about there is a rabble
Of filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.
They shall inherit the earth.
In her is the end of breeding.
Her boredom is exquisite and excessive.
She would like some one to speak to her,
And is almost afraid that I
will commit that indiscretion.
a skein is "A length of thread or yarn wound in a loose long coil" ... or "a complex tangle"
ReplyDeleteKensington Gardens is in London
poem taken from Writing Poems by Robert Wallace