Walking with Another Man in a Street of Athens
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem
He bought her earrings, rings in rings in rings
Around a sphere, the whole arrangement made
Of tempered steel. Well tempered heating brings
Out colors, she explained. This beauty played
In different tinges bringing outer space
To dangle from her lobes, two Saturns hung
On either side of loveliness, her face.
Now long ago she left him. He is stung
When looking up from lunch. A low café
Has suddenly become the place where pain
Is situated. Flashes gone astray
From Saturn and its rings are in the vein
Of agony. He sees her walking with
Them, gorgeous as an Aphrodite myth.