This poem is taken from PN Review 162, Volume 31 Number 4, March - April 2005.
Marienbad 1814A lion, aha, has to have broken loose;
A boy, he puffs his cheeks; he fingers
Now a flute; picks out a tune,
With singular glides, while at the fair
(Lodged overnight, for Sunday show)
An image, advertising fright,
A lion loose, everyone aghast -
Is not the same as those hussars
Of 1806; we still pick out the marks
Of gun-butts grooving our front door.
What a porridge! Speak of it
To nobody. A complex gestates,
Makings of a star, in secret snowballing
Spacious dusts. Meanwhile Faustus ;
Done with, sundry loving metamorphoses;
To Hafiz now the steeps, a distinct
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