Slow Smoke/Requiem for a Modern Crœsus

by Lew Sarett

SPLIT ROCK

 

Yellowstone Park
Eagle Butte
Shoshone River
Lamar Valley
Sylvan Pass Ranger Station,
Wyoming

REQUIEM FOR A MODERN CRŒSUS

 To him the moon was a silver dollar, spunInto the sky by some mysterious hand; the sun   Was a gleaming golden coin—      His to purloin;The freshly minted stars were dimes of delight Flung out upon the counter of the night.

    In yonder room he lies,    With pennies on his eyes.