FIVE
II
touching you i say (it being Spring
and night) “let us go a very little beyond
the last road—there’s something to be found”
and smiling you answer “everything
turns into something else, and slips away. . . .
(these leaves are Thingish with moondrool
and i’m ever so very little afraid”)
and i’m ever so very little afraid”) i say
“along this particular road the moon if you’ll
notice follows us like a big yellow dog. You
don’t believe? look back. (Along the sand
behind us, a big yellow dog that’s. . . .now it’s red
a big red dog that may be owned by who
knows)
knows) only turn a little your. so. And
there’s the moon,there is something faithful and mad”
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