POETRY!

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Poetry!

 

From the book
SMALL WINDOWS
Poems by Jane Costain:
“OLYMPIA”
There she is — spread out
before you, naked
but for one shoe dangling,
an orchid in her hair,
a ribbon necklace —
the white glare of all that flesh!
She stares straight at you,
a bit bored by your presence, you,
just one of many. Do you even
notice the bouquet of flowers
from some admirer offered
by the maid fully dressed, dark skin
blending into the background?
Or the small black cat?
With those wide-open eyes
what has he witnessed?
What else is there
unseen in the shadows?
You focus on the pleasure
of what lies before you —
Olympia, who unlike you
has nothing to hide.
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As ARTS & FOOD takes on its new and expanded magazine format, this issue is dedicated to Robert Frost.
“The Road Not Taken”
by Robert Frost,
First published in 1916
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Amazing works of poetry indeed!

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